GEOL 103 Study Guide - Final Guide: Total Fertility Rate, Stable Distribution, Deep Time
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The environment is dead last on the consideration scale for funding. Tyranny of the here and now- people focus on now and not the future. Discounting the future- people don"t want to pay for environmental problems now. Generational debt- damage that one generation does, the next has to pay for- generational debt is increasing. According the bible its 6,000 years old (4000 b. c. ) Earth is 3. 5 billion years old in life forms. Born 1/1000th of a second before midnight on december 31st = deep time- earth is so old gives you a you"re not here forever. Last 10 years have been the hottest on record. Shoreline to atlanta, ga as glaciers melt. How high sea levels will rise if all ice caps melt = 300 feet. Previous mass extinctions 1st 4 caused by global cooling, 5th caused by meteorite impact. Anti-scientific thinking 1) boring and not exciting, dry facts 2) tells people things they don"t want to hear.
