Humans and the Environment | Essentials of Environmental Science

This is the first video of a new YouTube Learning Playlist we're releasing to help you learn about the essentials of environmental science. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks!

This the kind of thing that should be taught in schools.

I am glad you are back! 😃

This was very well done! I look forward to the rest of the series.

This new series is exactly what I have been waiting for (showing the importance of the ecosystem and reminding us that it's part of our responsibility to save it). People all around the planet need to give a lot of their attention to this topic as raising awareness everywhere is crucial. Looking forward for the rest of the videos. Thank you Dr. Joe

This video is amazing and it explains everything really well. There is one small thing I'd like to note though. I am really concerned about our future because a fair amount of people don't take climate change and the loss of biodiversity seriously. I often hear people (on TV for example) asking why the loss of biodiversity is so bad. They don't really care if some kind of species they hardly ever see goes extinct. Because, well, what's in it for them? The ecosystem they see in their daily life is doing well (at least, it appears to be), so why should they have to put effort into protecting something 'useless'? I completely disagree with their opinion because it's based on ignorance. I don't think our civilization will shift to Ecocentrism unless we approach it mostly in an Antropocentric way. Humans are selfish, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I want to combat the loss of biodiversity and climate change mostly out of selfless reasons, but in an argument I usually bring up selfish reasons. Doing the right thing for the planet makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I'm not a burden on others and it makes me happy. In the end my selflessness is pretty selfish. Therefore I think it would be good to aim these videos at both selfless people as well as selfish people. And the latter one is something I'm missing a little bit. I really want to stress again that this video has been excellent. My comment is rather long and mostly critique, but if I started to explain what I did like about this video then I'd be writing a whole novel. I'll be sure to share this video whenever the conversation arises. Thank you very much for this excellent video!!

Hi Hot Mess. Thank you for coming back! I can't wait to see the rest of this series.

Thank you! Really helpful. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Would also appreciate any tips to helping the environment. Even if they are small things because sometimes the bigger things need to be slowly worked towards, but the small differences are often easier to change faster.. I.e. I need to drive my car to work still, but I cycle to nearby places etc.

"You can't study in isolation," he said it, THE SEMESTER IS OVER!

Including the human nature to environment is a very complex thing and our interaction within human itself and to the environment. This knowledge by human for human needed the most.

This is a wonderful video, so well explained, I wish all the world was more interested in this things, the care of the environment, we all depend on it because we are part of nature. I will do what I can with in my own means, to help polluting less, and whatever is in my hands I will do it.

I think it would also be good to mention, that wealth in biodiversity brings a treasure trove of information. For example: By studying a new spiders venom we might find new medication (plants have even more potential). Biomimetics depends on Biodiversity.

This is brilliant! So much info packed into a well presented video!

Such an interesting video. It actually really relaxes me a lot to listen to you talk about this. That mindset makes it a lot easier to comprehend all of the inputs you give me :)

outstanding pictures and clips on top of a such a well done presentation, a shame that this great vid barely gets any views though

I'll be an environmental science undergrad in September and have been looking for something like this!

Missed this channel! Glad you're back!

What a great video! I'm about to graduate with a degree in environmental science!

0:58 You guys misspelled Environmental. It is an easy one to do typing. I know because I do it all the time.

This is going to be a great series, thank you!