GEOG 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ebola Virus Disease, Social Darwinism, Iphone 7
27 Sep 2016
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Take home messages on environmental analysis and management. There are grounds for hope: things are not so bleak. There are useful things we can do: lack of politician"s willingness, one of the things we need to do is that we need to develop a way of shifting political will. These things are not necessarily what we think: the friends of science, the greening of planet earth, but also: al gore inconvenient truth, leonardo dicaprio: the 11th hour. The areas of low material well-being (global south / developing / third world. Roughly 80% of population with 20% wealth, consumption, impact: problem of deprivation, improve sustainability. Not applying the model we thing of. The ability to meet our needs without compromising future generations ability to meet their own need: what is a need, needs of different societies are different, we need iphone 7, developing countries need food. What is wrong with climate change is that it affect biodiversity.
