5 Human Impacts on the Environment

Provided by: Crash Course |Published on: April 27, 2021

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Synopsis

This video provides a great overview of the main ways we are affecting the planet and how those actions are affecting our ability to live on Earth.
It discusses ecosystem services, the importance of biodiversity, deforestation, desertification, agriculture, climate change, invasive species, and overharvesting wildlife.

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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: Crash Course

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

This video provides the connections between these many topics and helps students understand why protecting nature and intact ecosystems is so important for all life on Earth.
It identifies the huge financial cost of losing the services that ecosystems provide, not to mention the spiritual, mental health, and intangible benefits nature provides.

Prerequisites

The video does a good job of defining terms, but students should be familiar with terms like ecosystems, deforestation, and global warming.
The video has a number of breaks or pauses identified that can be used to quickly reference certain topics or to jump back to for review.
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Differentiation & Implementation

Social studies classes can use this video to connect ecosystem services with communities that rely on nature for subsistence farming and subsistence fishing.
Any class can use this video to help students understand the importance of protecting wild spaces and wildlife on land and in the oceans.
Other resources related to this topic include this PBS video about extinction, this StC lesson, this video about ecosystem resiliency, and this table of solutions to climate change.

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