EUS 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stormwater, Corporate Social Responsibility, Household Hazardous Waste

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Environment and Urban Sustainability
• Course: EUS 202
• Professor: Claire Oswald

Document Summary

Throughout most of our human era/time, the human pop. has held a steady rate at 300- Our current pop is 7 billion (7. 48 billion) Graph goes down since ppl are waiting longer to have kids and use of birth control. More developed countries vs less developed countries. Higher infant mortality rate in ldc: b/c of not having proper supplies (food, water etc. , leading to have more kids. Global distribution in the earth system on a scale unprecedented in humans history. Changes command a major realignment on our consciousness and worldviews, and call for different ways to inhabit the earth. Last 300 yrs we moved from holocene to. Anthropocene: stage 1- the industrial era (1800-1945, stage 2-the general acceleration (1945- 2015: stage 3- people becoming aware of what"s going on and initiating stewardship of. Brics (brazil, russia, india, china, south africa: countries that are newly developing, on their way to mdc, a lot of resources, strong influence on social affairs.