Vocab
Resources
What is anything useful to humans?
OPEC Oil Cartel
the organization of petroleum exporting countries was established in 1960 to combat oil price cuts by American and European oil companies. The involved countries have since evolved their economic systems away from oil dependence.
Current world population
what is 8.035 billion?
What is a megacity?
A city of 10 million or more people
Energy Security
What is access CLEAN, RELIABLE, and AFFORDABLE energy?
Peru - Ecological surplus
Peru has an Environment Minister who aims to use international aid to reduce deforestation and environmental pollution.
Abundant natural resources and reasonable levels of equity maintain basic levels of development for most of the population.
Various organizations are working to create sustainability.
World access to sanitation
currently 70%
What are the three Rs?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (In order)
Peak Oil
What is the point at which global oil extraction is maximized?
Haiti - Food stress
38% are food insecure
Half of their food has to be imported
Urban Expansion is currently encroaching on agricultural land
Global Physical Water scarcity
20% live in an area where it's physically scarce
What is Earth Overshoot Day?
The day when human demand for ecological resources and services exceeds the Earth's capacity to regenerate them in a whole year.
Biocapacity
What is an area of land or ecosystems ability to produce biological materials to sustain a human and its waste?
Mexico - Green Revolution
Supported by the government
A focus on food technology - irrigation
the government supported farmers with financial assistance and information on how best to raise crops
20% lack access to modern energy supplies
100%
Nexus
What is a series of complex connections and interdependencies between 2 or more things?
United Kingdom - Resource Abundance
The whole population has access to clean drinking water
Currently water secure but not guaranteed in the future
Focused on improving renewable resources
Food insecurity Caused deaths per year
3.1 million
What kind of economy does America operate under?
Linear