ERS317 Chapter Notes - Chapter Video: Resource Depletion
20 Jan 2017
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The story of stuff video week one missing from this system. Stuff moves through a system called (cid:498)the material"s economy(cid:499) a lot is. In the past three decades alone 1/3 of the planet"s natural. Chop down the trees, use up all the water, etc. Limit: we are running out of resources and we are using too. First world countries are taking away from third world resource space has been destroyed/consumed much stuff countries: production. Human breast milk has the highest amount of toxic chemicals. Pollution is high in this sector which is another limit to the system. First world countries move the factories overseas to try and get the toxins away from them: distribution. Keep the prices low and sell as much and as fast as you can. Externalize the costs; we aren"t really paying for the stuff we. The materials are found from all over the world and put are buying together overseas.
