GGR207H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecological Footprint, Intergenerational Equity, Overexploitation
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But not fast enough to support the things we have built. Increasing entropy forces urban and economy system to import energy and export waste. The development that meet the needs of present without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs. Utilization of resources and environment today doesn"t damage the prospects for future generation usage. Strong - to not damage anymore resources and to improve/restore environment for the future. Weak - substitution of resources with resources that causes less impact on future environment. Technologically accelerated resource use: the rate of resource using is much faster than the replenish of resource. Sustainable: use resource at the rate that is slower than the rate of refilling. Improved or not further damaged environment for the future generation. Improvements one place shouldn"t be based on shifting environmental problems to other places. First-world or developed countries often dispose waste to poorer countries.
