EVSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Alexandra Cousteau, Mexico City Policy, United Nations Population Fund
14 Aug 2016
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Our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels has been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years. Although it has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, prosperity has come at a tremendous price. We are now at a point where humanity"s demands for natural resources far exceed the earth"s capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the consumption of these resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so signi cantly, that a new geological era has been identi ed . These man- made threats become even more ominous when you look at them together as part of a global trend. The lm goes back in time and takes us on a journey through history when past civilizations made the same mistake of growing too fast, depleting their natural resources and ultimately collapsing.
