REM 100 Lecture Notes - Pleistocene, Cornucopian, Coltan

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: John Irwin

Document Summary

Discounting the future: saying we don"t have the ability to deal with environmental concerns right now so we will deal with it later: what can we do to abate or prevent them, what is sustainable development and could this save the day, what are the extra problems we face when we try to tackle environmental problems that are global in scale, biophysical: country is large, complex this poses a problem for us. Linear system of where stuff comes from; bumping up against limits that we don"t see: government: job to look our for us/take care of us, corporation: bigger than the government; governments have started looking out for corporations rather than us, limit: we are running out of resources 1/3 of natural resources are gone, we are using more than our share of resources and creating 30% of the world"s waste (us, third world: trashing other countries because we don"t have enough stuff.