Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brundtland Commission, Greenwashing, Natural Capital
24 Mar 2016
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Reduce number of issues that can be dealt with. Many countries ----> citizens live day to day. Sustainable development generations to meet their own needs (brundtland commission 1987) Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future. Allows global north to re ect, global south to develop. Must change meaning of development in order to be sustainable. Include things like happiness, health care, mortality rates. Marketing oneself as eco friendly, even though not. Political party w/environment in platform b/c it will get them votes, but don"t care. Canada- many parties have environmental platform; green party. Hard to get people to change! many are conservative and resistant. Typically four year terms, not long enough for long term solutions. Resources: anything we get from living/non-living environment to meet wants and needs. Winds, tides, owing water (indirectly from solar energy) Most economic growth has been fueled by non-renewable energy. Even those that can be, not always economically viable.
