ENVS 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biomimetics, Sustainable Development Goals, Habitat Destruction
18 Jan 2016
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Applied goals: finding sustainable solutions to environmental problems. Technological innovation: energy efficient methanol powered fuel cell car from daimlerchrysler. Creation/revision of public policy decisions and management practices: prescribed burning used to restore forest ecosystems. Need to change to new practices that offer sustainable solutions to environmental problems in very near future: 2: become local and decentralized, appreciate inherent value, reduce consumerism. 6: limit growth use triple bottom line, long term view. Limiting human impact on the natural world so that our civilization can continue to exist in a sustainable way. Goal: sustainable development: sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet theirs united. United nations has articulated sustainable development goals for humanity. Millennium development goals = achieve by 2015 (does not include population control: earth does not hold enough resources to sustain 7 billion of us at the north.
