Psychology and the Environment

In our world today, we face with a great amount of environmental issues. Global warming that is increasing Earth’s temperature, deforestation which is causing us to lose trees which means a decrease in carbon dioxide. Trash being dumped everywhere you see, step and breathe. Millions of acres of rainforest being cut down every year, people overpopulating the cities and not having enough room for more people. This list is infinite.

Water is a really big issue in our environment. People think that just because there’s an abundant amount of water, it isn’t going to run out and we should really worry about it. Truth is, if we keep on with our careless ways, sooner or later, we are not going to have enough water and we will then regret our inconsiderate behavior with water. In Cornell College, we noticed how water is not on top of the priority list. If anything, it’s at the bottom. Staff and faculty have other more important issues to attend to.

Psychology and the environment

Psychology has a lot of concepts that help understand why people act a certain way to environmental problems. It examines the interrelationship between environments and human behavior. Psychology recognizes the need to be problem-oriented, using, as need, theories and methods of related disciplines such as sociology, biology and physics. We as people have hopes of a happy life with our family and friends with a good career that pays good money and having good health. We hear the news about all the environmental issues that are going around us and we worry but we don’t seem to do anything about the matter. This is one of the psychological terms that will be going more into depth later on which is called diffusion of responsibility. There are different branches of psychology like there are other studies offered in Cornell College that also help with environmental issues. In Cornell, electricity and waste are a big issue but water