ES101 Lecture 1: ES
19 Jan 2016
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Challenges in environmental studies: scale of phenomena being studied, complexity of the systems, timeframes over which processes function, knowledge limited, bias, ignorance cornell note class 2. 1st european contact 1722 famous for its < 900 moai when europeans arrives only 2-3000people. population decline and resource depletion on rapa nui pre contact population 15000 largely treeless once heavily forested high level of soil erosion priginal native species are extinct once are much fish dolphin but swich to chickens yams. factory in the collapse of easter island examples in ppt. Anasazi classic mayan cities fatehpur chernobyl nature coming back. Popu growth excessive consumption of resources production of wastes =easter island. alien chemicals montreal protocol(1987) first sign of stabilization(2014) should get smaller 2015. environment ecosystem change sustainab natural capital ecosystem services pollut carrying capacity. es is a study of earth, study how human impact the world and try to manage it better.
