Environmental Management

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Questions for Critical Thinking
1. Explain the importance of making environmental security a key priority of governments. The government should give importance in making environmental security for the benefits of its countryman. The people should make feel secure and aware if they live in a protected place. One of the important security awareness that the government have is having the geo hazard map. Geohazard map is a geological state that represents or has the potential to develop further into a situation leading to damage or uncontrolled risk. It shows the place where it has a risk of having a landslide, flooding, and earthquake area. It shows the place where there is a high, low or moderate possibility of hazard threats. The PAGASA and PHILVOLCS are the two government department which monitors the possible typhoon and volcanic eruption in the country which also includes the earthquakes. They should have accurate monitoring of the possible calamity in order for them to easily advice the people whether they evacuate the place or not. These are only some of the importance why the government should give priority in making environmental security of the country. .
2. The House Bill 3773 “Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act” mandates a rule that restricts families to 2 children, introduces sex education for children and the distribution of artificial contraceptives. What do you think will be the implication of this to the Filipinos? I believe that there are other means and ways by which the problems of poverty and maternal death can be solved without destroying our family values. I believe that a problem or misdeed cannot be solved by another problem or misdeed. The legislative should focus on other more compelling problems instead of problem which can be remedied by other means. Considering the reproductive health of Filipinos is already addressed by existing laws and regulations, only proper implementation is needed. Filipino values and virtues have been developed through centuries; they should not be destroyed by virtue of the whims and caprice of the legislative. Otherwise, the present generation will not be able to leave a legacy to the future generation.

3. Suppose that you were the head of a family planning agency in our country. How would you design a scientific study the effectiveness of different approaches to population stabilization? How would you account for factors such as culture, religion, education and economics? Filipino is known to be family oriented people. In cultural aspects of Filipino they believe that education is the only gift that their parent could give to their children. They believe that having more kids is a treasure. It does not matter if they have more kids unless they can raise them well. Nowadays, some parents choose to have 2 kids instead of having more. Family planning is very important aspect in terms of having population stabilization. Having family planning is a big help to lessen the increase of population in the country. Responsible parenthood should also implement to have effective population stabilization.

4. Explain why we do not really consume anything and why we can never really throw matter away. Because every time we consume anything it becomes other substance. For example we consume food, after consuming any food our body will digest it and become a waste. The waste should have proper disposal because it can be harmful to our natural resources. The packaging of the food that we eat will become garbage’s which is hard to control. That is why we do not really consume anything because everything that we consume becomes a waste that can be harmful to our environment.

5. What are the major resource and environmental problems in the city, town or rural area where the last five or ten years? One of the major problems that our city has is the problem in segregating and proper disposal of garbage’s. If the Lipa City government will not make any actions to these problems it can directly affect us for the next 5 or 10 years from now. For my 24years of living in Lipa I never experience having a flood in some area but as I experience the typhoon last October it causes an alarm to our city. The drainage systems are blocked by the garbage’s which cause by a flood. If the government could only implement a strict ordinance or project for recycling, it can lessen the garbage’s in the city which causes flood.

6. The ecosystem concept revolutionizes ecology by introducing holistic systems thinking as opposed to individualistic life history studies. Why was this a conceptual breakthrough? In the previous years, researchers studied different species in the ecosystem. As years passes by, with the destruction of our ecosystem and continuous development of modern society are the loss of natural habitat of different species of plant and animals. Today, they tend to study the connection of each living and non living organism in the environment and its contribution to the ecosystem. The cycle in our ecosystem is very important in maintaining the natural balance of nature. The producers, consumer and decomposer have different role in our ecosystem. If one of them will be a big impact in our ecosystem.

7. Explain why lifestyle, population and technology threaten the environment.
By Lifestyle A lifestyle typically reflects an individual's attitudes, values or world view. People are consumer and polluter. Everything that we do can affect the ecosystem. People use to smoke and use cars which pollute the air. People swim in the beaches which help to pollute water. People use to construct building, theme parks and Malls which affect the environment through the waste it produces and destruction of habitat of animals. Farmers use fertilizer which pollutes the land. We eat foods and throw garbage’s without knowing where it goes. These are some of the lifestyle of the people which affects the environment.
By Population A population is the amount of people that live in a particular area. The area that the population relates to might be a country, city or state. The increase in population results to an increase in demand of food and habitat. Increase in population is a threat to our environment because of the waste it produces destruction of natural habitat of animals, increase of housing areas for the people and continues destruction of natural resources (terrestrial biome and aquatic ecosystem).
By Technology Nowadays, there is a big change in the way of living. The modern technology has a big impact that threatens our ecosystem. The buildings, theme parks and housing areas are a threat to our ecosystem because the land where there is a high diversity of plant and animals are converted into subdivisions. The smoke coming from machinery, factories and cars can also damage our ecosystem. It can damage the ozone layer of the earth that causes Global warming. Having a modern technology has a positive and negative effect to the people and to our ecosystem. ------------------ iad