Impact of humans is increasing
- population growth
- consumption increase
- technology
Political Ecology
Views on who is doing damage differs with scale
- Global: poor do more damage
- Local: poor use organic materials, wealthy ones use pesticide -> wealthy become wealthier
Population
Disaster affects rich and poor and populated/less populated differently
- rich: financial
- poor: loss of lives and financial
Patterns of Consumption
Modern humans require so much more resources than hunter gatherer -> globalized needs for consumption
- especially true for core
- US person 250x more energy than Bangladeshi person
- growth in periphery -> local impact
- growth in core -> global impact
Technology
- energy to travel
- pollution of tech
- allows for global damage fast
Tranportation
- resource use scales with population
- facilitates consumption
Energy
- 46M barrels per day in 1970 -> 73.27M barels in 2007
- 75% of Middle East economy
- Kuwait needs water instead -> desalinization
Alternative Energy
- EU heavily funds ECU for wind parks in Navarra in Spain