GEOL 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Earthflow, Stratovolcano, Mafic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: David Alan Hanes

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Is the ultimate endpoint sustainability: sustainable development, development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, how many earths would it take to support the whole, we can also quantitatively measure the increase population at your level of affluence, for example how much material do humans move compared to the rest of natural processes, humans move 4 times as much as other natural processes, world wide total consumption of resources: 60x109 tonnes/year, total mass of sediment transported to the sea: 16x109 tonnes/year. 395ppm: strongly implies human caused increase in atmospheric co2 over the last few 100 years, how has the rate of extinction of species increased, why has there been such a dramatic increase in human impact, population growth, technological advancements, increase in level of affluence. Our average level of affluence has gone up: how does past e. s. e. compare to future e. s. e, scale, intent, thomas midgley.