REM 100 Study Guide - Sustainable Development, Ecocentrism, Anthropocentrism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: b

Document Summary

Large scale (effects a wide range of people) The solution challenges current conflicts in the world. Serious to be recognized as a major problem. **changing paradigms, demographic transition, and great debate. Mushroom cloud icon of past generations pre 1945. Spreading of ddt; poisoning the planet 50s-60s. Human population over load driving down the carrying capacity of the earth. The population boom 2 billion in 39"/3. 5b in 68"/ 6. 5-7b now. High populations created a bad allocation of resources. ***demographic transition: birth rates and death rates change with some overall increase, death rates decline and birth rates stay high aka population grows, birth rate slows to close the replacement levels and population slow. Risk = consequence x probability (if either high then the risk is great) ***transformation of the biosphere from its natural state by human action. During transformation biosphere was altered by human activities.