ENGLESKI 1.

LESSON 1. –Introduction to Environmental Engineering

1.What does our environment include?

Environment is everything that sorrounds us, not just water, land and air. It includes all of
the biotic factors, or living things, with which we interact. It also include the abiotic factors,
or nonliving things, with which we interact.
2.Why is it important to understand our interactions with the environment?
There are several reasons why it is important to understand our interactions with the
environment. Firstly, we depend upon our environment for everything that is vital for our
living, such as air, water, food or shelter (zaklon). Secondly, our actions modify our
environment, which has positive and negative side. Many of our actions have brought us
beneficial changes, such as longer lifesoans, material wealth, mobility and leisure time.
It is important to understand our interactions with the environment because such
knowledge is the essential first step toward devising solutins to our most pressing
environmental problems.
3. What is an environmetal problem?
Simply said, an environmental problem is any undesirable change in the environment.
4. What does environmental science study?
Environmetal scientists aim to understand how the natural world works, how the
environment affects us, anfd how we affect the environment. They also try to determine
how we might develop solutions to the many environmental problems we increasingly face.
5. What is environmetal ethics?
It´s new branch of philosophy.
6. What does anthropocentrism, biocentrism and ecocentrism refer to?
There are ethical worldwiews of our relationship with the environment.
Anthropocentrism is a human centred view of our relationship