POL 607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gulf Stream, Global Cooling
10 Apr 2013
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Technology causes population growth: because advanced health care technology, medicine keeps people healthy and living longer, more food access as better & larger quantity of food can be processed much faster. Technology has negative & positive impacts on the environment: technology causes pollution, but technology also causes less gas consuming cars like hybrid, cleaner plants such as industries nowadays are more environmentally cautious. Environmental problems like climate problems have to be dealt at global level. 1 reason we have environmental problems is due to the nature of our economy: burning of fossil fuel in the last hundred years to achieve prosperity & industrialization. Developing world see how developed nations has achieved prosperity and they also want to pursue the same path to achieve industrialization within their economy and growth in economy. Canadians also misuse the energy consumption: we tend to overheat our home during winter team, we overcool our home during summer time when we don"t need to, avg.
