POL 607 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 607
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Everything seems to revolve around environmental concerns. Population growth affects environmental concerns through more consumption and pollution and more . Some of the biggest political issues in the future will surround government. Technology promotes economic expansion and development has its own impacts on environment. Tech contributes to population growth, better health care people are living longer. Tech has also made food more available allowing us to live longer (green revolution) Tech has negative and positive impacts on environment: cleaner cars, alternative energies vs. depletion of ozone layer and pollution. Half of human habitants are living comfortable lives. Emerging economies will continue to improve and a few decades down the road, there will be more prosperous people consuming at the same level as developed countries. Even if we start consuming less, the growing number of consumers will increase and overall pollution will not decrease: example. China didn"t have cars that many years ago, now it"s a problem.