GEOG 2EI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ecological Footprint, Ecological Debt, Biocapacity
2 May 2012
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When dealing with environmental issues that are global in nature: end up categorizing countries on basis of different variables: often wealth is one of them, difficult to separate countries between developed and developing. In 2010: income per person (x-axis, life expectancy (y-axis, the general trend showed: poor, die young + rich, die older, there is a huge cloud in the middle that was present. Calling any of these countries in the middle developing countries make no sense if you look at the life expectancy. Need to focus where the problem lies eg. africa: the size of the circle is population based, in 2010: canada"s life expectancy is about 80-81. If we look back 100 years or so- in 1900: on average people were expected to live until 50. Poor lookout, short life: another generalization used a lot (indicated by image to left, industrialized countries like.
