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EVR 4026

Human Ecology & Systems

Session Eleven

Unsustainable Human Ecosystem Interaction: Marten, Chapter 10

Topics:

Unsustainable Human - Ecosystem Interaction  

• Human migrations  

• New technologies

• Portable capital in a free market economy  

• Tragedy of the commons

• Large inputs to agricultural and urban ecosystems

• Urbanization and alienation from nature

• The rise and fall of complex societies  

• Wishful thinking and the precautionary principle  

• Things to think about  

Video: Peak Oil and the Energy Crisis:

Homework: 

1. Go to the "Things to think about" link above and answer questions 1-3 and 5-6. Place your answers in Canvas emaiil.

2. How does the documentary "Peak Oil" demonstrat an unsustainable relationship between humans and dthe environment?

3. Read the case study in chapter 10 from the Layzer book  - "Crisis in the New England Fisheries." Then answer the "Questions to Consider" at the end of the case study and post these questions with your answers to Canvas email.