GEOG 2210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Polychlorinated Biphenyl, Natural Capital, Atlantic Cod
1 Sep 2017
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Chapter 1: our environment: interpretations, challenges, and strategies. Cie(cid:374)tists" call for actio(cid:374) at the kyoto cli(cid:373)ate u(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:863: aimed at influencing leaders to strengthen the 1993 framework on climate. Change and sign an international treaty on climate change at kyoto, japan. Loss of soil productivity, causing land abandonment: forests, tropical rain forests/tropical and temperate dry forests destroyed rapidly, living species. Population: earth is finite in its ability to provide and absorb wastes, unrestrained population growth puts a demand on the natural world and prevents a sustainable future. Warning: great change in our stewardship of earth is required, to avoid vast human misery. What we must do (5: control environmentally damaging activities, manage resources crucial to humans effectively, stabilize population, reduce and eventually eliminate poverty, ensure sexual equality/guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions. M - manage resources crucial to human welfare effectively.
