ENV 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cornucopian, Outstrip, Biocoenosis
16 Apr 2018
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Focus on the selections provided in the lectures. Maybe a question on the supplementary reading. Worth 25% of final mark (r)evolution (2012) Canada wins lifetime achievement fossil award at warsaw climate talks. Some things to remember: shark fins vs. Climate change: coral bleaching and ocean acidification, beauty in the muck: cuttlefish (> adaptation, evolution, activism and several fossil awards (> activism, revolution) Are we on a j-curve or s-curve: we don"t know. Don"t know exactly where our carrying capacity is, although many say we"ve surpassed it. But, talked about how we can influence or modify carrying capacity: we don"t know where it might be in the future, technology can and has played a big role. Estimates are projections based on what we know now (and some uncertainty in what we know now) In the next 40 years = we need to accommodate about 2 to 3 billion more people (equals the population of all of.
