GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hooker Chemical Company, Stewart Udall, Kenneth E. Boulding
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Emphasis on the inadvertent, non-obvious problems of the food web. Temporal displacement (dump mercury, shows up a few years later) Spatial displacement (difference between doing something and where the effects show up) Stuart udall the quiet crisis (makes people nervous, sneaky-the(cid:374) you lear(cid:374) there(cid:859)s a problem) Canadian council of resource ministers pollution and air conference. Cuyahoga river (flows through cleveland) declared a fire hazard [built water towers around it] Kenneth boulding the economics of the coming spaceship earth compared earth to a spaceship (if we mess this up, we are(cid:374)(cid:859)t goi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)y(cid:449)here(cid:895) Concept of zpg (zero population growth problem because of resource demands) Usa environmental protection agency and the clean air act. Old spectre resour(cid:272)e shortages of the (cid:1011)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s (cid:894)oil, (cid:272)offee, sugar(cid:895) Delaying tactics link to problem of cause and effect. Example of reagan gutting of clean air act so as to allow for emission from power plants and automobiles.