BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Plant Genetics, Organic Chemistry, Primary Alcohol
24 Feb 2014
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Lecture 9: green biotechnology: harnessing plant biomass for biofuels and biomaterials. Major challenges for society in 21st century: increasing population. Economics (value of banking system: food supply, energy (light houses, industrial factories, transportation, environment (climate change, effects on crop production, healthcare/medicines (we"re living longer- have to deal with lots of diseases) Pretty stable in industrialized countries unless there"s immigration. Richard florida article- the world is spiky: a number of articles have been saying world is flattening out. Innovation/technology will be driven more broadly around world. Not true for now: population is very spiky- na, europe, asia have large populations. Se asia- making up half of world population (india and china) Other parts (canada and australia)-not many: light emissions- roughly correlated with economic activity. A lot in na (us and urban canada) Absent in developing countries/populated areas: patents- innovation/inventions. Patents don"t necessarily correlate with invention- have laws.
