ENV 101

9 March

 

Toxicology Epidemiology and Demography

The Ogallala and the Child in the Balkans…and its many implications

 

·    Oral Presentation?

·    Second Project – Due after Break – Posterboard – Questions?

·    EAT Wednesday – 4pm Pearson’s Lobby

 

ARTS/ETHICS – SCIENCE  - ECON/SOC/POLITICAL   (Cross Media Issues)

 

Chemistry in Agriculture…

TOXICOLOGY          Page 156 and Dr. Swann

                             Bioaccumulation – In ONE species

                                           Biomagnification – Along the Food Web

 

LONDON and the Great Lakes

Environmental Literacy and Epidemiology

Snow &Tulane, Snow/UCLA  & epidemiology  JSI and CDC

 

And Risk Assessment

And Journals (Great Lakes) Tropical forests are the home of 50-90% of the Earth's terrestrial species and the source of 70% of our cancer-fighting chemicals?

Tropical Forests are Homes to 50-90% of the Earth’s terrestrial species…

and the source of 70% of our cancer-fighting chemicals.

      

WHMIS at U of T - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

 

SCIENCE >> POLICY >> ETHICS

 

Biotic Potential v. Carrying Capacity

 

                    

I.          Population – The child on the Balkan Peninsula in October, 1999

Humans – Six Billion People with # to be 9.3 to 12 billion in 50 years

Other Species – “r”      Their intrinsic capacity for increase (lemmings, rabbits v. elephants)

 

 

II.     HUMAN DEMOGRAPHY

 

Humans

 

J-Curve v. S-Curve , lag phases and the carrying capacity gap

 

Low r = K-strategists      High r=r-strategists

 

Population Growth – Environmental Resistance = Actual Growth

                     (Density Dependent or Independent Factors)

Total Fertility Rate

Rate of Natural Increase = Birth Rate – Death Rate (crude death rate  d/1,000)

National Growth Rate =  What???

Age Structure

 

 

 

Demographic Transitions

Ø I.  Pre-industrial

Ø II. Transitional

Ø III. Industrial

Ø IV.  Postindustrial

 

Q.  What happens if some nations are at III. or IV., and other societies are at II. Or “early” III.?

 

 

Demography Site I

 

Demography Site II

 

Demography Site III

 

Demography Site IV

 

Demography Site V

 

III.Good Morning Representatives of the Planetary Population Conference

IV.   LINKING POPULATION TO GREEN AGRICULTURE AND TOXINS

Today we are to determine a “world population policy” that will deal with issues affecting life on the planet.

Humans

Other Species

The Environment

 

The United Nations (UN), an accepted authority on population levels and trends, estimates that the world population reached 6 billion in 1999, and is increasing annually by more than 77 million persons. The rate of increase, 1.3 percent per year, has fallen below the peak rate of 2 percent per year attained by 1970. By the late 2040s, the UN estimates, the growth rate will have fallen to about 0.34 percent annually, at which time more than 50 countries will experience negative growth. 

 

And who are all of these people?  In the April 1997 issue of Women's Press the following summation was made.  If we divided the world's population by 60 million there would be 100 humans, of whom:

·                57 are Asian

·                21 are Europeans

·                14 are Hispanics from the Western Hemisphere

·                8 are Africans

·                51 are females

·                70 are non-white

·                70 are non-Christian; 30 are Christian

·                6 individuals control 50% of the world's wealth--all Americans

·                70 are unable to read

·                50 suffer from malnutrition

·                1 is near death and 1 is about to be born

·                and only 1 would has a college education

 

Wondering…and worrying…about water…and population

POINT v. NONPOINT Issues

HOW DOES RECOVERY OCCUR OF CULTURAL DAMAGE OF WATER RESOURCES?

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Water Treatment…

OR

Be “nice” to the water prior to cultural use - Ogallala

US Ground Water