EARTHSC 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Shipping Federation, Escherichia Coli, Bottled Water
25 Dec 2015
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It is a review of the main themes of the other films. Exam will ask for example of environmental justice: give general area, what happened, etc, no specifics. Increases in temperature can affect things like storms, floods, etc. Flood in chicoutini, quebec and winnipeg: cost of damage is a lot. Size of spring flows have grown noticeably in winnipeg. Recently, water is going near to crest of floodway: structure breach can be devastating. Problems with transportation and navigation: shipping federation of canada = every cm drop causes drop of cargo in 30 tonnes per ship. Drought constant conditions of prairies throughout the 1990s: 2003 drought caused billions of grasshopper eggs to hatch, earlier, more intense grasshopper offsprings, changes ecosystem, problems in economical lost and chemical use to ward. Alberta does not have enough freshwater to support agriculture and growing cities. Impacts of climate change permafrost already melting off: they"re happening already now.
