SUSTAIN 1S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Our Common Future, Bhopal Disaster, Union Carbide
29 Jan 2020
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Critical innovation- changes the way we share ideas, political system, economic system, facilitated education, facilitated collaborative research. Improvement in sanitation and food storage result in pop growth. Change from wood to coal, coal replaced use of water and biomass resources, no natural limitations, only technological and economic. Coal 1800 200 tons every 10 min, 1900 every 26 sec, now every . Oil 1859 every 18 hour, 1906 every 1 sec, today 230 per second. Silent spring by carson environmental movement highlighted a connection to nature than dominance, highlight timeline of innovation(chemical) to natural time(how quickly can nature deal with chemical) Bhopal disaster- union carbide plant in india, manufactured pesticide sevin, Mic leaked into water system, half a million impacted. Our common future- sustainable development seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future. Kyoto protocol 1997- reduction of 5% from 1990 levels between 08-12.
