ES295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ecological Footprint, Environmentalism
15 Nov 2020
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Consumption (story of stuff: what are the impacts, ecological footprints, v alue/ commodity approach, ecological footprint, metric based on estimates, visualize the areas of consumption. Consumption is increasing around the world at disproportioned rates. The products we consume are often produced through long networks or value chains. A growing percentage of our purchases are made through large retailers: consumption and externalities, v alue chains, looks at each step, what came out of each of them, allows us to see impacts from production to consumption. Market exchange in commodity, services and investment sectors with reduced political interference in the form of legal and/or economic barriers: ex. Toyota"s assembly plant system has 41 non-domestic plants o enabled by free trade (world trade organization: global powers in retailing (2010, walmart, carrefour, tesco (top three) Value of sale by top 10 global retailers was 1. 16billion. In the us, 41. 7% of sales that take place occurs through retailers in the top 250 list in.
