SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fossil Fuel Divestment, Sustainable Transport, Carbon Footprint
20 Jul 2019
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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 do the extreme weather events we looked at (sandy, mozambique cyclones, Extreme weather events is an effect of climate change. Becoming more and more obese over time. 30 to 50% of the total food produced is wasted. Much more food wasted in industrialized world than in developing countries. Food can be wasted due to quality standards. Insufficient purchase planning, expiring best before dates and. What are the environmental impacts of agriculture? careless attitudes of consumers lead to waste.
