A Life on Our Planet

1) In 1937 what was the…

Human Population _________________

CO2 Concentration _________________

Remaining Wilderness _________________

2) How many mass extinctions has there been?

3) When was the last major extinction?

4) What has been the key to the stability of the last 10000 years?

5) What caused human population to start and progress?

6) Why must we focus on being sustainable and using renewable resources?

7) Why is saving “a species” not enough?

8) How much rain forest has been cleared?

 9) Are large ecosystems, like the ocean, immune to trophic cascades? Explain.

10) What % of large fish species have been removed from the oceans

11) How could an ocean wide trophic cascade occur?

12) What percent of the fertile land on earth is farmland?

13) What percent of the birds are domestic birds?

14) What percent of mammals are not humans or our domesticated animals?

15) In 2020 what was the…

Human Population _________________

CO2 Concentration _________________

Remaining Wilderness _________________

16) What are some of the dangers faced in the future if we continue on this path?

17) How do we restore stability to our planet?

 18) How can we speed up the “peaking” of the human population?

19) How can we restore health and biodiversity to our oceans?

20) How can we restore terrestrial ecosystems?

21) Why are forests important?

22) How much carbon dioxide would the “return of the trees” absorb?

Critical Thinking Questions:

Why is a stable climate important to all life on earth?

What evidence is there for humans having overrun the world?

Discuss the following statements:

“A dead tree has more value than a living tree”

“This is not about saving our planet, it’s about saving ourselves”