SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Fossil Fuel Divestment, Sustainable Transport, California State Assembly

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Assembly bill 32 - california global warming act of 2006. Requires california to reduce its ghg emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Reducing petroleum consumption by cars and trucks. Increasing renewable energy as source of power. Divest from oil, coal, and gas companies. An abrupt shift in a trend or a previously stable state . It is the time scale which matters. Ex: overfishing can result, not in gradual decline, but in a population crash. Several phenomena combine to produce an effect that is greater than would have been expected from adding up their effects taken separately . Gradual changes that may be unnoticed may do a surprising amount of damage before it is discovered . What are the lessons we can draw from looking at the concept of environmental. What do the extreme weather events we looked at (sandy, mozambique cyclones, Extreme weather events is an effect of climate change.