PLSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Resource Consumption, Global Warming, Consumerism
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Even with great efforts for renewable energy, the bigger consumers will still continue to produce pollution and use fossil fuels. Because of rising fuel prices everything will go up in price. Global trade effects all economies of the world. We will pollute less because demand for fuel goes down. Book=abundance, the future is better than you think. Paris climate summit: over 40,000 participants from all over the world: there is still not a way to enforce anything though. Consumption and consumerism (cid:884)(cid:882)% of world rich use (cid:889)(cid:888)% of the world"s things (cid:888)(cid:882)% of the middle class use (cid:884)(cid:883). 9% of world"s things (cid:884)(cid:882)% of world"s poorest use (cid:883). (cid:887)% of world"s things. Consumption yields pollution: air, soil, water, bodies used by agriculture and industry. Mining waste contamination: 3 million gallons of mine waste from the gold king mine. Effects of deforestation: global warming, dryer climate, soil erosion, reduction of biodiversity, desertification.
