By Adam K Eckard
This is an
essay on the nature and function of our planet and just how it can sustain life
and how long this can go on. Just how we must learn how much damage humankind
has done to this planet and just how it can be repaired. In other words what
can we do as humans to repair our planet so that it doesn’t die taking us along
with it.
Environmental
Science is an interdisciplinary science that incorporates the influences of
many other sciences such as the physical, biological, and informational
sciences to understand the effects of what humankind has done to the world that
we live in; how we can repair it so that it is sustainable. It also studies how
the natural world functions and how it has changed or evolved over the
millennia.
By gaining
a better understanding of these sciences and their interdependence we can
repair the planet if we work together. This includes the new economic powers
such as India and especially China. We need to work together to solve these
problems and the internet can make the sharing of information so much easier.
The great advantage of the Information Science is that it combines the
understanding of the ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences,
zoology, mineralogy, oceanology, limnology, soil science, geology, and physical
science and atmospheric science. The better these are understood the more we
can repair things like the ozone or come up with better way to produce power
that are not so catastrophic. Such as Chernobyl or Fukushima.
In
environmental science ecologists study how plants and animals interact with
each other. This includes biodiversity and complexity of the environments that
make up the world that we live in. How the decline of the Great Barrier Reef
affects the Eco structure and the living things that live in it. And hopefully
how to fix it.
This can
include social sciences as well. The need for trained scientists in a broad
range of fields has created a need for this as well. Having the proper people
trained in these fields creates a need to better utilize them and to have a
better trained cadre of supervisors and managers to accomplish this task. How
to use the correct techniques and equipment to say repair creeks and streams in
areas affected by over logging or severe forest fires. How to make a comprehensive
land use plan to restore the Tillamook Forest in the Pacific Northwest. That
forest has been ravaged by forest fires in 1933, 1939, 1945, and 1951. Also, in
2021 another large forest fire has been raging. To restore this forest, it
would really take a very complicated plan that would take a millennium at
least.
As soon as
we can get a better understanding of these sciences then we can create a truly
sustainable energy grid that would emphasize more solar, and a less damaging
footprint ecologically. Slowing the use of coal powered power plants. Or how to
create a more natural ‘fish ladder’ so that salmon runs could be easier for the
fish. This would be a major ecological and economical infrastructure for the
nation and the world. Or a more efficient use of water around the world.
This is a complicated subject not just scientifically but politically as well. To get the worlds scientists to work together might happen, but to get the worlds politicians to cooperate is a totally different matter. Political science has not been incorporated into the study of the environment yet. It is the opinion of this person that it should be, and soon.
References
Rinkesh. (2021) What is Environmental Science?
www.conserve-energy-future.com/what-is-environmental-science-and-its-components.php
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