Global Goal Presentation

01| What are global goals?

02| Life on Land

Unnderstand The World goal

Why is this a world goal?

• Healthy environments are imparitive to sustain existence on earth
• Provides food
• Affects the entire world

What's life on land like?

• Full of wildlife/abundance of trees and other forms of nature
• Is home to billions of species including us humans
• HOWEVER, life on land is not what it looks like

Pollution

Construction

• Constant renovation and construction can deter and harm any wildlife/ecosystem nearby

• This dusruption upsets the circle of life and leads to the wildlife to be skittish or act out leading to unnecessary killing

Urbanization

• Increasing rates of urbanization around the world will lead to a greater demand for use of fossil fuels
• Air pollution will only get worse due to this

Mining

• There are several negative effects due to excessive mining
• Things like Deforestation, Erosion, contamination of soil integrity, contamination of water supply (rives, ponds, lakes), and excessive dust and emissions in environment

Littering

• Litter itself destroys habitats all around the world and kills over ONE million animals a year

• Litter cleanup also costs the U.S. alone about 11.5 billion dollars a year!

Agriculture

• Agriculutre is actually the #1 leading cause of environmental damage in many countries around the world
• Pesticides, Fertilizers, and other toxic farm chemicals are used in mass and poison fresh water, land/water ecosystems, the air and soil

Global Problem: Global Warming

• Due to global warming, several probelms have risen like the melting of ice caps, loss in species, mass flooding, etc.
• Scientists believe that if we as a human race continue at this current rate of greenhouse gas emission then more than a 1/3 of species and plants on earth will face extinction by 2050

National Problem:Devastation of Wildlife

• Due to mass Industrialization around the world, contamination of water sources and land masses only increases as time goes on
• These toxicities only impeded on wildlife by affecting their reproductive abilities, increases cancer rates, and limits the fresh food supply we could acquire

Local Predicament:

Nonpoint Source Pollution (NSP)

• Pollutants are picked up by flowing water and deposisted into rivers, lakes, ponds, etc.

• Decreases amount of fresh water available for drinking and leaves it unhabitable for life

Are you aware of the current challenges facing life on Land?

69% Yes

Results from my survey

31% No

This is a Global issue!Make a change.

03| What can YOU do?

Verbal communication

Donate to an Organization

Recycle

"This assignment has had a lasting impact on me. All it takes is for you to do your part to make a change." Eli Brown

Thank you!

Please send any questions to: elijah.brown029@topper.wku.edu