ENVR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Smog, Indoor Air Quality, Red Wedge
7 Feb 2018
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Motor vehicle growth -- bric: graph, sudden crash in the motor vehicle registration in the us financial crisis, motor vehicle registration skyrocketed in the bric countries as the numbers were dipping in the rest of the world. If you look at the motor vehicle production number by country, today china is the worlds largest producer: most people wouldn"t associate india as a big producer but it is. The tata family: pictures, gives us a sense of where motor vehicles are headed. A social trap is sert to occur when individuals makes decisions in where they believe they will benefit in the short term. The process is to the detriment to everyone, including to the person making the decision. Micro-motif that are rational leading to macro effects that are detrimental. If not everybody makes the effort, the people who did make effort, they will suffer a greta loss.
