EVSC 1080 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Natural Capital, Environmental Ethics
21 May 2016
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If everyone on the earth consumed as much as the average american does today, we would need five earths for the rest of the world to survive. Only 1. 3 billion people could live on the earth if everyone lived like a typical american (1. 3 billion people is less than 1/5 of the total world population) Cultural changes can grow or shrink our ecological footprints. Five basic causes of environmental problems: population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the environmental costs of goods and services in market prices. Affluence- high levels of wealth (either results in environmental degradation, wastes, and pollution or better education, which can lead people to becoming more environmentally friendly) The average american consumes about 30 times as much as the average indian, and 100 times as much as the average person in the worlds poorest countries.
