GVPT 273 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Child Mortality, Demographic Transition, Extreme Poverty
18 Apr 2018
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Bro(cid:449)(cid:374), lester. (cid:862)a pla(cid:374)et u(cid:374)der tress. (cid:863) i(cid:374) d& . Intro: world population has doubled and global economy has expanded sevenfold. [team led by mathis wackernagel, 2002] humanity first surpassed the earth"s regenerative capacity around 1980, by 1999 exceeded that capacity by 20 percent: global bubble economy based on overconsumption of earth"s natural resources. Can produce more food by over-pumping aquifers but once they run out, food prices increase: u. s responsible for 1/4 of all carbon emissions, right now, most damage has been local: death of aral sea, burning rainforests of. Indonesia, collapse of canadian cod fishery, melting of glaciers that supply andean cities with water, dust bowl forming in china, and depletion of the u. s. great plains aquifer. Ecological bills coming due: world population grew from 2. 5 billion in 1950 to 6. 1 billion in 2000. In 2002 production fell short of consumption by 5 percent.
