Climate Change: Remembering the Humanvironment

Misconceptions
1. Environment and Humanity are at odds
  1. All human progress requires Environmental degredation
2. Technology will solve all our problems
3. Environmentalists are fear mongering extremists
Climate Change
1. most of the debate is policy, not science
2. Bjorn Lomborg, Danish scientist
  1. Book: the skeptical environmentalist (2001)
    1. Non-polemical environmentalism
  2. Movie: new "Cool It"
    1. His idea is making environmentalism affordable
    2. Lomborg prefers his informational, cerebral approach than Al Gore's "fear" rhetoric.
Environmental Refugees
1. Film: The Refugees of the Blue Planet
  1. Maldives
    1. 2004 Tsunami
      1. 1.7 million displaced
    2. Global Warming will make the nation of the Maldives disappear.
    3. Erosion Problems
  2. Brazil
    1. Crop companies bought land from independent farmers
    2. Plantations and Eucalyptus paper trees
    3. Paper industry of Brazil.
    4. Companies manipulate the government to gain favor.
    5. "Taking Hope away from someone is worse than taking their life."
    6. Water usage!
  3. Canada
    1. Independent Farmers displaced by Nat. Gas. Wells
      1. Nat. Gas. explosions are in the blink of an eye
    2. Natural Gas Wells are dangerous.
  4. What is an environmental refugee?
    1. People displaced by Environmental Disaster
    2. Used to be only in the southern hemisphere
    3. Number greater than est. war and poltical refugees
  5. Intersection of people, environment, and economy
    1. Because of the Tsunami's displacement of people, finally international support comes from the developed world
    2. Climate change supports the uneven development model of the developed world exporting to the undeveloped.
    3. No one helps
    4. Deforestation in Brazil takes farms from people who can barely read or write and uses them to grow paper trees
      1. Environmental issues effect everything
      2. Eucalyptus is the worse
        Requires lots of land
        Pesticides
        Water usage is huge
        The Eucs take all the water from other plants, creating a barren wasteland
      3. Monoculture takes over the soils
      4. Literally, wiping your ass displaces people in Brazil
    5. Independent Farmers Canada
      1. In Alberta, the crown owns the minerals
      2. Nat. Gas. companies take people's land for a well
      3. People think he's opposing the economic development
      4. Alberta's oil and gas industry is important for development.
      5. Mahlon doesn't see a benefit to sticking four wells around a man;s farm.
      6. Beavers used to dam a creek before the Nat. Gasser
        Disturbing the beavers natural habitat
      7. Sour Gas H2S
Globalizatoin
1. Whether is it good or not changes when you move your feet and look from another perspective
2. It's great
3. and terrible
4. and awe-inspiring at the same time