ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Carrying Capacity, Industrial Revolution, Environmentalism
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Chapter 1 textbook notes continued (8) resource consumption exerts social and environmental impacts. Population growth affects resource use and availability. Industrial revolution enhanced the materials affluence of many of the world"s people, raising standards of living by raising consumption: led to an increase in population, and increased pressures on environment. Carrying capacity measure of the ability of a system to support life. When the carrying capacity of the land is exceeded that"s when there are too many individuals for the system to support. One of the 2 will happen: 1. Population of that species will decline or collapse: 2. The system itself will be altered, damaged, or depleted: the tragedy of the commons hardin based his argument on the scenario of a public pasture or commons that is opened to unregulated grazing. Argued each person who puts animals to gaze on the commons will be motivated by selfish interests to increase the # of his/her animals in the pasture.
