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The Impact of Modern Industry on Population, Resources, and Environment

Explore the effects of modern industry on population growth, resource consumption, and environmental degradation. Learn about the challenges we face and the need for sustainable development. Discover the relationships between human societies, nature, and the future of our planet.

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The Impact of Modern Industry on Population, Resources, and Environment

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  1. Results • increased production scale to centralization • increased urbanization • increased energy consumption per capita • increased agricultural productions • decreased human labor in agriculture • increased population

  2. Decreased human labor Urban area

  3. Environmental impacts • used non-renewable resources • poor sanitary conditions caused "Black death" • decreased natural resources • increased environmental impacts

  4. 2.3 Modern industry society • started by the end of 1st world war • higher production efficiency • increasing consumption by advertising and p.r. • more dependent on non-renewable resources • changing from natural products to synthetic products

  5. -increasing energy consumption pre capita -automobile and transportation -industrial productions -agriculture -electricity -air conditioning and heating

  6. -more goods at an affordable prices -increasing agricultural productions -increasing longevity -sanitation and heath services -foods -medicine -decreasing population growth in developed countries -good health and birth control, education, and social security

  7. all the goods are in developed countries than developing countries • increasing scale of environmental impact from; • local => country => regional => global => universe

  8. 3. Human and nature • Concept "Learning to cooperate between human, and • learning to cooperate with nature" • Goal => Sustainable earth society

  9. Can human aggression prevent the cooperation? Yes or No!

  10. Energy transfer in human society Does the energy transfer in human society remain the same?

  11. Population, resources, and environment • What are the relationships between population, resources, and environmental problems?

  12. What is the most significant vicious cycle in human society? • Resource destruction • Poverty • Environmental problems • How do they relate?

  13. Development and environment • Do the human societies really develop?

  14. What will be the future of resources, the foundation for development?

  15. Ecological dilemmas • 1. Rapid exponential growth of human population. • 2. Exponential growth of the total demand for the Earth’s resources. • 3. Acceleration of deterioration of the Earth’s environment. • 4. Realization for the integration of “Ecology” and “Economics”. • 5. Actions now!

  16. What would be the best development model?

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