R SOC365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kuznets Curve, Ecological Footprint, Canada 2016 Census
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Understanding drivers of environmental harm: material/physical - population and technology, ideational - cultural mindsets, beliefs about human and nature relationship. How has human population overcome natural limits: technology, the green revolution - greater overall food production (saved us essentially), resource mining - chemical fertilizers, intensive farming, mine more resources. Population projected to stabilize: what about af uence levels, friedman - too many americans: the metric to watch is not the total number of people on the planet, it"s the total number of americans on the planet. That is the key number and it has been steadily rising. : people trying to live the american dream, megacities and middle class groups are aspiring to live like americans. Too many americans: cities around the world have caught on the american af uenza. But to gure out how we are to any limits. we need to ask how big are we? .
