Explain the need for public awareness about the environment and its degradation?

If done poorly it can turn people off. Done well it can encourage volunteerism, donations, affect voting and get activists into office. The planet and all the people are our system, and we need to take care of it all, for optimum performance of the whole system. Like the body, it all works best working together. The whole concept encourages civic involvement in all aspects of life. The environment should be defined to include the people to be most affective a concept. If people have peace, security, health and economics on the top of their list, they will hardly have time for trouble making and "EEEVIL" deeds. Over dramatizing, however, I don't like.

Public awareness drags people into the picture and they belong in the picture. We can't degrade the environment, we only degrade ourselves. The environment is OK, we are changing and creating a messed up one. The are even finding that tornadoes and other weather condition are our fault for cutting down trees, overgrazing land and creating deserts, that don't absorb heat and water as they should. Tree block and slow down wind. Wind is less severe without a large water content. Water diverted to fields can handle global warming and rising waters around the world and an earth drying out tends to shrink and cause tectonic plates shift, volcanoes and they cause Tsunamis. Even if they don't feel it's man made, something could still be done about it. So there. lol You would have to submit some of that at theory, but the evidence is mounting. You will also need references, to show you did your homework and weren't just making things up, if you get an argument. At least you did the work so you can't be faulted.