ECS 113- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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The great acceleration: great acceleration--we"ve been changing the earth at a rapid rate, socioeconomically: Increased world population due to medicine, sanitation, vaccines, but not increase in birth rate (which has decreased) Increased real gdp (cumulative economic activity for a country), especially post wwii with the rebuilding necessary that created jobs. Increased urban population, with cities getting denser or sprawling, although now there is a shift somewhat back. Increased primary energy use since more people means more power, especially with technology & transit: environmentally: Increased carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane: stratospheric ozone. Increased ocean acidification: environmental policy, about 14, 18, 40 thousand years before colonials, people lived in north & Issues have become transboundary: carbon dioxide, greenhouse gasses, massively polluting atmosphere & waters, values are involved (some don"t believe it is done by/accelerated by people, no simple answer, need to think globally.
