HONR 1027 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sustainable Development Goals, Ecological Footprint, United Nations Environment Programme
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Un environment program international body that sets the 17 sustainable development. These are specific, consensus-based goals aimed to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. Unep also collects data to enable evidence-based approaches. Intrinsic value value that reflects our capacity for compassion, care, faith, beauty, or other abstract values. Systems thinking: examines how components interact at many levels, to create system-wide effects. Ex: local to global scare environmental ethics systems and their impacts. Sustainability related questions about systems of human resource use: How do we frame our understanding that some people on earth use more resources than others? (impact equals population times affluence times technology) Developed: countries with large, advanced economies, education systems, democratic governments and high standards of living, Developing: some combination of a small, basic economy, unstable government and low standards of living. Population pyramid: predicts population growth based on age, gender, and geography.
