Environmental Crises

2. Any substances that have the ability to cause an adverse health events and threats to human health and well-being.
5. Occurs when the earth’s natural resources are depleted
6. Additional forces that can imperil humans.
7. Also known as the Global Goals
10. “Renewable energy – powering a ______ future”
12. “Land - the planet’s ________”
13. Whatever form, whether it is air, water, land or noise is harmful to the environment.
14. As we degrade ecosystems, the risk of future pandemics _____.
15. Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
16. The declination or disappearance of biological diversity.
17. “Biodiversity - our strongest __________ against climate change”
18. Rapid population growth

1. It is an Infectious (communicable) diseases caused by _______.
3. “Food and Climate Change: ________ for a healthier planet”
4. Dredging, clearing, grading, excavating, transporting or filling.
6. Another precondition for crisis (Accdg. to M. Scott Taylor) is when an economy and environment interaction is with _________ feedbacks.
8. Things like avalanches, quakes, tidal waves, storms, and wildfires in those areas.
9. It is one of the preconditions for crisis, according to M. Scott Taylor if an ecological system exhibiting a __________.
11. Irreversible worsening of the environment
19. “The ocean – the world’s greatest ______ against climate change”