GEOG 1220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reforestation, Cocobolo, Soil Health
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Supplementary texts, videos, and exam essay questions: lester brown plan b 2. 0 (2006) Problem displacement: it is not always evident that a particular issue has been solved or if it"s immediate implications have merely been displaced. One temporary solution causes another problem in a different area: spatial displacement. Super smokestack : displacement to another medium. "slurry" produced - liquid toxic ash waste was needs to be disposed of and therefore was pumped into an earthen dam. However the slurry reached nitra river, creating an enormous amount of contamination. Case study 2: china inner mongolia northern china. 1950"s, there was a massive deforestation operation conducted under mao leadership. 1960"s saw extreme plowing of the land, and the agricultural frontier movement: resulted in mass starvation, and the death of 30 million people, the inner mongolian landscape was reduced to very dry plaines. Former lush grassland areas were transformed into semi-arid dry surfaces. There is no shortage of coal in china.