GEOL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maximum Sustainable Yield, Non-Renewable Resource, Modular Design
23 Aug 2016
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Ecocentric or environmentally centered: extrinsic values b. i. Intensity efforts to extract more of the resource a. ii. Including these costs (greek fees) will help basic market principles reward sustainable activities: explain how the strategies of resource management will change the employment picture of human society. a. b. In a high throughput society, jobs actively promote nonrenewable resource depletion and pollution. In many cases, sustainable activities produce more jobs than unsustainable ones: designing more durable and repairable products is an important step toward reducing throughput and curbing the throwaway mentality. Most widely used form of commercial energy a. ii. Middle east reserves are estimated to be 2/3 a. iii. Burning it releases 9. 5 bm tons of co2 a. v. Raw material often dumped into environment: coal b. i. More abundant than oil and more evenly distributed around the world b. ii. World"s known coal supply will last two years if we continue using it at the rate we are b. iii.
