GGR202H5 Lecture 10: Chapter-17-ENV100
Document Summary
Cell phones and many other high-tech products contain coltan, used for tantalum capacitors o! coltan = columbite + tantalite. Since 2000, >5 million died and millions fled. Profits from coltan sales finance the war: conflict minerals o! People doing artisanal mining in national parks killed wildlife, cleared rainforests, polluted rivers, caused uncontrolled erosion o! Most ta from drc is smuggled into china. Critical flow resources (effectively nonrenewable because of mismanagement) taking more out of the resource then going in. Common property resources resources owned by a community/world ex. Living resources replace or restock themselves by births and growth. Some energy resources (e. g. , biofuels) (sunlight, tidal, hydro, etc. are technically inexhaustible) o! Living population stocks can be mismanaged to the point where the population crashes irretrievably. o! Earth resources are extracted from the solid earth. Renewable and regenerating in principle, but on a long time scale e. g. , groundwater, soil o!
