NRES 102 Final: Final Exam Study Guide
9 Dec 2016
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Society that failed due to unsustainable use of island. Society fails to take care of the environment. Understand how natural world works + how nature and humans interact. Assess status + trends of natural ecosystem. Establish long-term sustainable relationships with the natural world. Rapid human population growth and increasing consumption per person. World population = 7,068,000,000 us population = 315,000,000. Resources consumption and depletion (us: 5% population uses 30% resources: depleted water supplies, agricultural soils degraded, oceans overfished, forests cut faster than they grow. Technology can help: really need multidisciplinary science = need biological + social solutions. Help air quality on surface make smoke stack taller. Problem = acid rain: 1st clean air act 1970, unforeseen problems trifluroacetate (cid:523)tfa"s(cid:524) replace cfc"s in fridge and air conditioners. Don"t lead to ozone depletion but now everywhere on earth and increasing in natural ecosystems thru precipitation. Three strategic themes (interact through environmental public policy + individual responsibility)
