"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine”

IROQUOIS MAN AND LODGE

Sustainability!

HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH

That’s a lot of people!!!!!

Developed vs. Developing countries

Developed vs. Developing• U.S.

• Japan• Canada• Australia• New Zealand• Western Europe• The US, Germany,and

Japan account for more than ½ of the worlds economic output

(1.2 billion people)

• African countries• Asian countries• Latin American

countries• China, India, and

Mexico (middle income)

• 5.4 billion people• 97% of world’s pop.

growth expected to take place in developing countries

Global Outlook

• Comparison of developed and developing countries.

Figures 1-5 and 1-6Figures 1-5 and 1-6

What does this ship almost going over the edge symbolize????

Economic growth

Nonrenewable Resources

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Explain this tragedy of the commons

Developing countries lack infrastructure

Unsustainable resource use

The cost of bringing people out of poverty----industrialization

Poverty and pollution

Poverty and deforestation

Environmental accounting

Man dominating nature

Diverse grassland

monoculture

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Review part one• 1. In a perfect world, what would be the three

components of a sustainable society?• 2. What would be the two main ways we humans

could reduce our global impact on the Earth to achieve a sustainable global planet?

• 3. What does “poor environmental accounting” refer to?

• 4. What is a monoculture and how does it impact the earth’s natural systems?

• 5. How does poverty lead to environmental degradation?

• 6. How does wealth lead to environmental degradation?

Review Questions part 2

• 1. Name three traits of developing countries• 2. Name three traits of developed countries• 3. Name three nonrenewable resources• 4. Name three renewable resources• 5. Describe one example of tragedy of the

commons• 6. What is the “external cost of pollution” ?• 7. What is passive solar heating?• 8. Name two strategies for green building.

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• 9. What are two environmental problems caused by suburban sprawl?

• 10. Name two benefits to the environment of compact urban living

• 11. Describe three ways the people in developing countries contribute to environmental degradation

• 12. Two reasons why poverty leads to overpopulation

Review Continue• 13. Describe two reasons why it is more

environmentally efficient for people to have more vegetable based diets as opposed to more meat based diets?

• 14. In what areas of the world is the human population expected to increase the most over the next 20 years?

• 15. Describe two benefits to eating seasonally and locally.

• 16. Measure of economic growth?• 17. Name one example of nonpoint pollution• 18. Earth is a ________system for matter, and an

_________ system for energy

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19. Give an example of how humans try to simplify nature without really knowing the long-term consequences.

20. What prompted the beginning of the industrial revolution?

21. Describe the second law of thermodynamics.