Patterns+in+resource+consumption

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[|Living Planet Report 2010] = = =Patterns of resource consumption= AIM: Evaluate the ecological footprint as a measure of the relationship between population size and resource consumption. Identify international variations in its size.

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AIM: Discuss the two opposing views (neo-Malthusian and anti-Malthusian) of the relationship between population size and resource consumption.

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Further Reading

To what degree is china Malthusian or anti Malthusian? Watch this [] and think one child policy

[] Human consumption: Flying in the face of logic Forty years after dropping his Population Bomb into the environment debate, Paul Ehrlich is still railing at man's destructiveness

[|Food crisis was predicted 200 years ago] Dismissed for centuries as the worst sort of apocalyptic doom-monger, English parson Thomas Malthus’s predictions have found new resonance

[|World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch] • Two planets need by 2030 at this rate, warns report • Humans using 30% more resources than sustainable

[|Climate change: calling planet birth] Family size has become the great unmentionable of the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles

[|Overpoulation Myth]

[|We need birth control, not geoengineering]

Paul Ehrlich, a prophet of global population doom who is gloomier than ever [23 October 2011]

What a population of 7 billion people means for the planet [18 July 2011]

The Malthusian question [21 March 2009]

The Wall Street Journal: New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears [24 March 2008]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">NPG Malthusian Bicentennial: Malthusian Truths About Today's World [22 May 1998]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The Daily Beast - A Roadmap for the Planet [12 June 2011]



Planet Geography pages 145-154 Study Guide pages 40-41 =Changing patterns of energy consumption=

AIM: Examine the global patterns and trends in the production and consumption of oil. [|China Oil]
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[|Oil Through the Ages]

AIM: Examine the geopolitical and environmental impacts of these changes in patterns and trends. Examine the changing importance of other energy sources. [|Frontier Oil]

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media type="custom" key="9350040" Further Reading Planet Geography pages 154-161 Study Guide pages 42-43

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AIM: Discuss the reduction of resource consumption by conservation, waste reduction, recycling and substitution. media type="custom" key="9061682"media type="custom" key="9061738"

AIM: Evaluate a strategy at a local or national scale aimed at reducing the consumption of one resource. media type="custom" key="9061816"

Local Scale: Beijing Water Management Notes <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Resource #1] (note extra links at the bottom of the article) [|Resource #2]

Further Reading Planet Geography pages 161-174 Study Guide pages 44-48

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