GEOG 1972 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Web Conferencing, Sustainable Development, Anthropocentrism
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Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Modern/current arguments - how societies develop and the decisions they make. Some of these decisions can yield collapse. Was offered as another cliff we were about to fall off. (cid:862)f(cid:396)a(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g(cid:863) - sending pressurized fluids into geological structures to let hydrocarbons migrate. Often phrased as the ultimate existential, global problem with only global solutions, it is the (cid:373)ost (cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)atast(cid:396)ophi(cid:272) a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: it th(cid:396)eate(cid:374)s the ea(cid:396)th"s life suppo(cid:396)t s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s. Only new development paths, new international arrangements to solve problems, and create new opportunities. Trump is pulling u. s. out of this. Add more concrete - brighten the surface. Represents an enduring concept of the nature and society and nature relationship: nature set absolute limits on society. But the human impact, the transformation of nature, still seems to be growing, maybe still approaching a global ecological crisis. Rate of growth began to decline 30-40 years ago and continues to decline.
