EVS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Soil Retrogression And Degradation, Biocapacity, Easter Island
28 Mar 2017
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If everyone on the planet lived as comfortably as we do, we would need 8 planet earth"s to have enough resources. Red to green ratios with paint corresponded to the level of aerosols in the air. Recording of the atmospheric levels of particles that was recorded by painters. Homo species have been around for over 7 million years. Part of our genome that would represent interspecies mixing many years ago (homosapiens and neanderthals) Population grew by most recent billion in 12 years. When we didn"t have agriculture, we didn"t really have a society and now that there is agriculture and we can take care of our people lead to the diversification of activities in a society. Growth rates are increasing mostly in the areas that are the least likely to be able to support them. Demographic transition: when more people are being born than dying. Population continue to rise in most countries, especially developing nations.
