BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Biocapacity, Ecological Footprint, Ecosystem Services
21 Nov 2014
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Occupy all of our thinking: sex, legacy, leisure, impending collapse of human civilization from environmental degradation is not on our. Data show that human societies can have an acceptable human development index (over 0. 8) or an acceptable ecological footprint but not both. World population with three growth pulses tool making and fire: energy from hunting and killing and burning organic matter agricultural: energy from growing organic matter industrial: energy from burning fossil-fuel organic matter. Our food race is rapidly converting our planet"s biomass into human mass this is what happens when we clear a piece of land of wildlife and replant it with human crops. The land was supporting a biomass comprised of hundreds of thousands of species and tens of millions of individuals. Now all the productivity of that land is being turned into human mass, literally into human flesh.
