EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Biocapacity, Biome
25 Sep 2016
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Room ac 223: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. The class began with the professor laying out beads on a table. He explained that each bead was a potential bonus percent for our final exam. He then proceeded to tell the audience that there was the possibility of taking more than one bead from the table. He then told the class to come for the beads, causing them all to disappear in seconds. The bonus points were fake, as the professor simply wanted to prove a point regarding the. Tragedy of the commons : is when users of a resource are tempted to increase their use of a resource until it"s gone. People are greedy and our unregulated exploitation of resources is what leads to resource depletion. The concept was proposed by garrett hardin (1968). Rapa nui (easter island): example for the tragedy of the commons . Textbook - environment: the science behind the stories, third canadian edition (3rd edition)
