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This document discusses ecological footprint, strategies to reduce it, different fishing methods, and urban issues. It examines the ecological impact of various activities and offers solutions for more sustainable practices.
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QUICK GET THE ECO FOOTPRINT Compare the Total Ecological Footprint among countries. Which country has the lowest ecological footprint? Which country has the highest ecological footprint? French Guiana has the lowest ecological footprint. Nauru is the most energy deficit country. Compare the Ecolog...
QUICK GET THE ECO FOOTPRINT Compare the Total Ecological Footprint among countries. Which country has the lowest ecological footprint? Which country has the highest ecological footprint? French Guiana has the lowest ecological footprint. Nauru is the most energy deficit country. Compare the Ecological Footprint Per Person (i.e., “per capita”) among countries. Which country has the lowest per capita ecological footprint? Which country has the highest per capita ecological footprint? St. Martin has the lowest ecological footprint of 0. The highest country’s footprint is Nauru. Brainstorm three realistic strategies that you could take to reduce your footprint’s size. Use this list for possible solutions for reducing your ecological footprint. Three strategies I can use are buying organic food, not using transportation to go to school, and saving water. FISHING NEWWWW By what percent has the amount of tuna decreased globally since 1950? 50% decrease What was the original name of the Chilean sea bass? Why is this worth knowing? The Patagonian toothfish because they are a type of cod, not a bass. What is one proposed solution to overfishing at the individual, community, and national level? Government limits, banning harmful practices, establishing marine reserves, and raising consumer awareness and boycotts. Bottom Trawling - Has the largest impact on seafloor habitat destruction Midwater Trawls - Mouths of these nets can be as large as five football fields, Adding streamers to these gear types can scare away and reduce seabirds bycatch, Used to catch schooling fish Longlines - Adding streamers to these gear types can scare away and reduce seabirds bycatch, Used to catch large fish like tuna and swordfish using miles of baited hooks Purse Seines - Leads to significant accidental catch when used in conjunction with FADs(fish-aggravating-devices), Used to catch schooling fish Drift Nets - Adding pingers to these stationary nets can significantly reduce entanglement by sea turtles, marine mammals and sharks What are ITQ systems? What is one benefit, and what does the article suggest is a major drawback? ITQ systems allocate fishing quotas to individuals, allowing people to buy or sell quotas. It provides sustainable fishing by preventing overfishing. Although it is beneficial for fish, smaller fishers might lose access to the market because of high quota prices. What are two downsides of net pens? Net pens may cause pollution from fish wastes and uneaten feed, and increase risks of spreading diseases and parasites to fish populations. What species is usually farmed in man-made coastal ponds? What are two problems with this method of aquaculture? Shrimp are commonly farmed in man-made coastal ponds. Two problems are the destruction of coastal habitats like mangroves and water pollution from chemicals and waste. What are three benefits of shifting from the aquaculture of carnivorous fish to the regenerative ocean farming of seaweeds and shellfish? Regenerative ocean farming improves water quality, enhances biodiversity, and absorbs carbon, making it an eco-friendly alternative to carnivorous fish agriculture. Urban sprawl - people in cities leave until nobody is left and it is a suburban area. Why? People do this because it is cheaper housing, less taxes, better quality of life like less noise pollution. URBANIZATION- Higher-density, people in urban areas do have agricultural jobs. Using transit lowers fossil fuel usage and is efficient. Being close to the city allows for walking and promotes good health. More resource use because it is efficient. More water is available, but upstream flooding, sediment issues, and decomposition problems arise in dams. Downstream, there is no normal sediment needed for survival. SALTWATER INTRUSION- When taking more water than needed to recharge, the saltwater underneath intrudes into the well, contaminating the aquifer. We are only drawing up saltwater now, and we don't want to do this because removing salt is difficult. IMPERMEABLE SURFACES Groundwater does not recharge. More runoff goes to low-surface soil, polluting it because of contaminants. No water sinks in because there are no trees and no climate regulation. Impurities from cars and waste enter the atmosphere, causing carbon and methane emissions. This can lead to asthma, obesity, and depression. CITY STUFF More car use leads to greater fossil fuel consumption. There are more impermeable surfaces. Heat is trapped in the city and suburbs. HOW TO SOLVE Add more trees to decrease runoff, address all problems, increase albedo, reduce heat, create carbon sinks, and purify environmental impacts. Trees create air pockets for water to go through smoothly, also absorb it yum yum Extend transit beyond the city by subsidizing public transport so more people will use it, which will lead to less fossil fuel usage. Permeable pavement allows aquifers to recharge and decreases runoff. Implement multi-use buildings, enhance city accessibility, and promote more biking and exercise. Clean up brownfields by remediating abandoned buildings, reducing impermeable surfaces, and planting useful vegetation. GREEN REVOLUTION Average food item only travel 2000 km from farm to home, transportation is 10% energy subsidy 17% total commercial energy from growing, processing, transporting, cooking food, mostly food production at farm, food processing in factory + home Started growing big big stuff, more growin w modern cultivation methods Reliant on fert, irri, pest, more yields Monocropping Green revolution Shift from using mostly human labor and low fossil fuels to mainly machinery, fossil fuels, less people Fertilization, irrigation, more crop varieties increase food production First notion was with Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), created disease resistant and higher yielding wheat, increase agriculture with it Mechanization, irrigation, use of fertilizer, monocropping, pesticide use Mechanization Less than 5% of workforce works in agriculture, but in developing countries w/ lower wages, 40-75% Using machinery is expensive, but more efficient when fossil fuels abundant, fuel prices are low, labor prices are high Machinery is specialized, easy to use, more profits Big farms support big machinery because profit from big farm cover cost of machinery, but small farm can’t Monocropping is good for machinery But machinery makes more fossil fuels, more reliance upon machines Irrigation 16% worlds agricultural land produces 40% of worlds food It can be good, but depletes groundwater, aquifers, causes saltwater intrusion into freshwater wells Waterlogging - soil degradation when soil is underwater long, impairs root growth bc no oxygen, no cellular respiration spec Salinization - small salt in irrigation water concentrate on soil surface through evaporation, reaching toxic levels, impeding plant growth Fertilizers Exporting crops removes organic matter + nutrients, so to replace depleting nutrients, use fertilizers Organic and synthetic fertilizers Organic - animal manure, crop residue decomposed to return nutrients, easy to use, contains more nutrients, adds organic matter so better structure like air pockets Has to be gathered, nutrient levels are varying, harder to use, but cheap Synthetic - artificially manufactured fertilizers, use of fossil fuels to create, easily absorbed by poor soils, overused, no help structure, kills benefical bacteria, reduces natural nutrients Uses large amounts of fossil fuels, also carried by runoff into water, reducing oxygen, does not add organic matter to soil, some do add tho Monocropping Corn, soybean, wheat, cotton, grown frequently Efficient bc can be harvested and grown at the same time Downside because loss of habitat and biodiversity, only one type of plant, increased the possibility of catastrophic event, one pest can kill everything Soil erosion, wind can blow over bare soil, carries soil away, lose soil and lower productivity Pests that rely on crop plants reproduce quickly bc abundant food, predators also rise, but habitat loss bc no more plants Pesticides Insecticides, herbicides, broad-spectrum pesticides, selective pesticide Easily shipped, but can kill everything, but also contaminate groundwater Insecticides - insect killers Herbicides - kill plant species competing w crops Broad-spectrum pesticides - kill many diff types of pest, can be selective or narrow-spectrum and target narrow range Pesticides can kill more than needed, persistent pesticides like DDT kill bald eagles, more than needed, can build up toxicity Use pesticides for yield, no damage crops, money Pests might evolve resistance, so useless Not reliable bc continue making new pesticides bc of resistant bugs Can kill predatory insects eating crop pests, pollinators, plants fixing nitrogen and fertility Runoff again w pesticides NOT EUTROPHICAN, just kill Can get into drinking water, contaminated water Carried by rain or wind, end up in residential and end up far awayyyy GMO (last one) Greater yield, less pesticide use, more profit Inserting desirable DNA into plants to maximize yield For example: bacteria creating its own toxins, this gene is taken out and put into corn, so pesticide-producing plants, getting rid of pests Can spray weeds efficiently Monocropping culture, limited genetic variety, can die from envior Not good because it could unintentionally kill bees Modified with new vitamins, creating bigger and better animals and produce GMO reduces pesticide use, more money, more yield too Genetically modified organisms very reliant vulnerable to pests bc no genetic diversity, so bleh Less biodiversity, places that don’t accept GMOs, so have trouble transporting them, more reliance on buying GMO seeds, pesticide treadmill bc pests might have gained resistance to GMO pesticide production, more buying Why are GMOS bad If gmos breed w their wild relatives, genes spread, no biodiversity and varieties Contamination of wild plants and animals Most seeds are controlled by big corps uh oh government Dam the hype aint worth it banned in countries 😭 Pesticide treadmill from pesticide-inducing plants Agricultural practices aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i cantttttttttttttttt Tilling - gets rid of buggies and weeds, prepare soil for growth, bare soil = erosion wind and water, evaporation outta moisture, more fertilizer, alter natural structure, carbon released, HOLY DAMMM, more compaction, organic matter deep becomes one w oxygen and decreases organic mater, more co2, degradation Mechanized tilling - impacts, fossil fuels, environ byeee Slash and burn - developing tech, burn trees and add ash from burn to soil nutrients, but if keep burning, only for a lil bit, continue burning, forever, infertile end, unsustainable (potassium contain) Low genetic variety during growing SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Maintain soil - let regain nutrients Recycle and reuse water and use it wisely Scarecrows !!!11 Minimizing air and water pollution - use less fossil fuels, use more natural methods like natural predators Ipms - natural methods to control pests like using dogs Promoting biodiversity and awareness - ppl will listen Organic farms - farms without pesticides and fertilizers for at least 3 yrs MINIMIZING AGRICULTURE Hunter-gatherers - least impact We grow rice, corn maize, but requires many yrs of soil to regenerate for nutri 🙁 Animals - breeding them causes low productivity soils - soil compaction bc more movement Organic pollution - sht Energy subsidy - fossil fuel energy needed to raise any thing like meat 🤤 and eggs 🥚 more energy means more energy used, not sustainable, too much used and pollution, but hunting-gathering is sustainable, but not sustainable for a big population INDUSTRIALIZED AGRICULTURE Advantages - high yield, food, eco, less deforestation, now can go have education and industry Disadvantages - dependence on fert, pestic, machines Unemployment - labor in cities now Soil degradation from resistant pests, water pollution bc runoff, less water Irrigation methods (next time im lazy) 70 water agriculture Furrow - ez and inexpensive, minecraft ahh farming where dig trench/furrows along crop, fill w water, seeping into ground, moisture 😩, abt 65% eff, 35% evaporate runoff, but eff in sandy, least eff Flood - FLOODING RAHHHHHHHHHHH DROWN EVERYTHING IN WATTEEER let it soak in huh, more disruptive to plant growth, but 70-80 eff ig, not all plants like it picky picky, low walls needed, waterlog + saltsalt, water divert —> upstream bleh trouble Spray - hawk tuah on that thang, put water into a spring, sprayin water all around town, 75-90 eff but lot of money 🙁, energy up, programming ezez, fossil fuel, clog nozzle waaa, pivot system give soil paper cuts (ruts) 😭, incr erosion developed Drip irrigation super eff, wet ahh hose 😳, less nutri leach, buried or left on top, drippin water and over 95 eff, very bueno, no weeds to!!111!, could poke em when tillin be careful, pests eat yummy, expensive, good w sandy, developed Xeriscaping - raising plants without any irrigation, only using water from nature boi wtf 😭 EROSION, WATERLOGGING Solutions to waterlog + other If too much water: Drain it Add more sand Use drip, no build up Salinization Salt build up when water a lot, but hot, evaporate, and salt builds up on surface Continue freshwater flush to wash out salt Grow salt tolerant Dont let it happen in the first place is best >:( Ogallala Aquifier - where u at u got plans 😏 ermm like whats happenin there dawg Nebraska - texas 🤠 Sooooo all the farmers r droolin for that WATERRR ✨and its bein drained too fast Like for most aquifers, drained too fast to recharge Meat 🤤 Cafo - little to no movement discord mod ahh lifestyle, minimizes land costs, eff, less breathing, less energy, waste fertilizer runoff, contaminates water, turbidity, albedo, more sediment, nutrient, less oxy, like usual, less biodiversity FECAL COLIFORMS - if get into water, we get sick yucky ewwwwwwww Sht - emits methanes, cc lol Manure lagoon - where all the shts at Chicken, hog, cattle polluted 22 rivers states 25% land is for livestock Growth hormones and antibiotics - use growth hormones on animals, humans eat, human grow fat af Antibiotics - to limit diseases, but pests grow immunity, pesticide treadmill Soil erosion, soil compaction, damage, no infiltration FREE RANGE FINALLY BRUH FREEDOOMMMMM lettin em eat what they eat No need for antibiotics bc FREEDOMMMM More land tho, could interfere w ecosystem, slow growth Waste is spread out, naturally blend into biogeo cycle ☺️ Overgrazing - use too much grass, no roots, erosion, fatah Trampling riparian causes death, so sht can end up in water and move along Also higher costs poor ah Desertification - ghosted, kill trees, ecosystem dies bc lol everything gone 😂 EAT YOUR VEGETABLES 🗣️ 🔥 So yeah there r benefits 😔 Reduces fossil fuel, fart ahh methane, conserves water, less antibiotics + growth hormones, improve topsoil (co2 and n2o, ch4) Eating one more trophic level, get energy directly PESTSSS 🗣️ 🔥 Intercropping - using one or two more crops bc SYNERGY 🔥 jing x bladie ahh plants, like one plant need nitro, other plant gets nitro (reduces fert needed) Agroforestry - putting trees next to veggies to HALT soil from leavin from erosion, proteccs and gives food Contour plowing - plowing according to ✨ natural ✨ figure of land, prevent erosion, when u got a hill, leave it there dawg dont plow, cause soil blow bye bye when wind and rail No till agriculture - no tilling 🤯 avoid soil degradation and topsoil bye bye, less erosion and keeps water, leave plant residue so root keep in place, soil horizons, more herbicides so weeds dont compete sadly, co2 stays Perennial - all yr round, annual - only one season, stay roots Terracing - makin stair steps, grow on side, slows rain, dec water erosion and soil loss Strip cropping - strip mining nah jkjk where u cut the forest out in strips so the forest around em can grow back, then cut next to grow, leave other to keep soil together yeahhh, less soil loss and nutrient stay, water stay Windbreaks - put trees and break the winnddd, stop wind from destroy crop, decrease erosion by protecc Soil fertility! Crop rotation -synergy, feifei x mozzarella ahh Overgrazing - soil erosion, so die lol Rotational grazing - cycling around pasture to make sure every spot suffers equally (nahh jkjk) rotates to let replenish Green manure - cover crop, plow it into soil, adds potassium and nitro when dyin thank u :3 in soil, just temporary homies Increase ph, so more alkaline ahh soil, some planties like it IPM Uh like ways to minimize use of pesticides Crop rotation - rotating crops prevents pests from feedin on one plant and die lol Fake em once then change it idiot DONT KILL THEM 😭 they suuc but they part of the trophic sht Also encouraging animals eatin pests, agroforestry brings on the biggest birbs Inspect crop to catch bug early, no pesticide Save cash and more yield Biocontrol - bio controls that naturally get rid of em Take natural predators to kill em, get pets or smth dawg Physical control - physical barrier, like puttin cloth around a plant so all its buds die lol Too complex, slow, and expensive Unrelibale if u use natural stuff Chemical controls - last resort no using IPM techniques - can minimize threat of infestations from a diseased tree - Like monitor trees - Knowing pest species - Knowing how much money needed for this and that - Traps - Bio control w predators - Chemical for last resort Ok pesticides, why is it bad Non-target wildlife die again, water go yyuckyyyy, biomagnify + bioaccumulation Aquaculture Creatin a place for fish to omm nom nom proeccin em, then killin em for food aw man Very efficient, only need water, little fuel More eff compare to terrestial Can be in marine and freshwater We need more protein bruh 😭 so more fish and more money for fishermen Less danger and less fossil fuels uses More eff than reg fishing, so less overfishing Feed fish antibiotics and protec Creates yucky bc clean water is used for fish, then wastewater w shat, antibiotics, and uneaten food Wastewater can have viruses, bacteria, pests, infecting wild fish outside of it Fish that escape reheheheh can breed and compete, spreading disease Uneaten pellets, and medicinal residue can contaminate waterways More diseases and infections bc they so together lub dub If breed, mess up genetic lolllll Clearcutting Decreased soil fertility Stream turbidity and runoff + No more habitats, niches, species Altered precipitation, impact on water cycle More co2 and less co2 storage More flooding Hotter 🥵 MONEY 🤑 bc u cut a bunch and eff, more envior impact tho Aforestation - growing trees back Invasive species Kickin ppl out lol Alter the direction of streams Selective cutting Removing trees just causes too much dec in biodiversity already, offsets trees left BAHAHAAHAH Monoculture Usin one thing bbbbboring 🙄 Fast growing pet trees, just cut em down for stuff Envoirnemtal solutions Debt for nature swaps - rich country pay poor country to protect forests in the poor country Redd (triple redd haha 😂) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation Norway my homie banned it Climate change lol More fires NOOOOO We’re warmin up chat Pests destroy huge areas of trees Dead trees release co2 lollllllll Most fires are still increasin and gettin bad Sustainable foresty Using sustainable methods to cut stuff Sell sustainable wood Buy sustainable wood Reforestation, buying, using wood, ipm Prescribed burns Deforestation is unsustainable, so reforestation, plant Selective harvesting Making illegal to cut down in eco sensitive or highly diverse Transport fallen trees that dont disrupt eco and cause soil compaction Recycling wood products Selective removal of diseased trees Diseased trees can destroy everythin Hard to do tho, incre eco cost of usin forest resources Reduces farmers chance for money profit 🙁 Specifically trained mfs workers to know how to use these tools Preserved biodiversity, preserves eco system, encourages use of sustainable in future, and reusing wood makes less need for cuttin more down IPM my homeboy 😔 selective tree removal for pest management ensures the works are watchin and monitorin the tree stand users, reduces impact of killin non-target species, soil and water, less trophic structure disruption, mimics natural balance of eco Prescribed fire Controlled fire Using ipms Food, medicine, carbon bye, water bye, recreation, biodiversity, water purification Clear away fuel load, encourage growth Burn undergrowth, dead matter Extra note: undergrowth means breedin ground for buggies Some trees need fire to live Conifers 🗣️ 🔥 Create firework poppers Lil seeds that open when its hot, then get carried away by hot air Stop trees and skbidi from growin too far and intrudin ‼️ Just a natural thing bro Public no like and interferes, politicians might be mad, no understand we burnin everything and thats its actulaly good, they stop, but it actually bad Maximum sustainable yield Take certain fish, take fish when it is right time in the life cycle, where they makin the most bebes Be careful Mining (next)OMGMINCRAF I love miners High quality - ez, low quality - take a lot of resources and need to harvest more bc too many impurities Rock spoil - puttin overburden to the side, its spoiled now awww Overbudern - any dirt or sht blockin ur way to those mine diamonds Strip mining - YEWSSSSS ILY removing strips of soil and rock for the ore under, like strip minin, used when material is close and parallel to surface, close stuff like coal and sand Open pit mining - tnt hole, creatin a big hole to remove, but it too big so they gotta dig it all up, close to surface Mountaintop removal - explode top of mountain w boom 🤯 crazy, depositing the tailings in river or streams, low elevation Placer mining - looking for money money like metal and precious stones in river sediment, letting water separate heavy stuff like the jewels, gold rush mfs r placer miners subsurface mining - mining occuring below surface, more than 100m from surface, putting horizontal lines into mountain, then vertical holes for elevators to transport and move up Mine tailings - trash, return it back lil bro, try to recover it, stuff after purifyin and forgotten child ahh Stuff from mining Impacts on water, soil, biodiversity, areas Mineral resource miining causes health problems for humans Construction of roads - soil erosion, damage waterway, habitat fragmentation Mine tailings contaminate water w acids and metals Acid mine drainage - water passing thru mine tailings, acidic lol from metals Mountaintop removal - usually put in adjacent valleys, block/change flow of river, used for coal safer than subsurface Sometimes restore mountain, but disagreement abt if efficienive Damage to streams and groundwater Placer mining - river yuck, places adjacent w sediment + chemicals bc u takin em out Merucury highly movable air soil water, harmful to plants and animals, can damage nervous system of humans Acid mine drainage - from subsurface, when tailings r rottin abt, but these tailings (like pyrite reactin w water to create sulur, waterways go yucky) dissolvin anythin goin down, so everythin gets carried!!111! remove underground water from mine, causing acid mine drainage, lowering ph of soil and stream, eco die, when ph incre whena cid is diluted, iron comes out and in albedo, in temp and low oxy :( Subsurface is hard 😩 accidential burial, explosions, fires, vaping nah jk jk inahling dangerous gases particles, causing respiratory diseases, black lung disease, like lung cancer Demand for mineral resource continues to increase, when ez surface iron gone, they start minin the diamonds 🤑 but more mining tailings Mining law of 1872 to regulate silver copper gold, like fuel and oil Now Surface Mining coontrol Reclaimation Act of 1977 regulate surface mining of coal mining, minimizing land disturbance, but doesn’t teach it all Okay im sorry theres too much gyatt dam Open pit mining - increased albedo, open space so earth is exposed, erosion, soil loss, increased slope Strip mining - fossil fuel yuck Yummy mine tailin slurry runoff 😋 contaminate streams Cyanide heap leaching - dissolvin gold and makin yummy slushie, but the cyanide leaches bc its outside, impacting organisms and water BARE EARTH, topsoil bye, vegetation die lol bc only subsoil, bare until primary, causes higher temps, desertification bc of erosion and albedo soil fr mewing Roads, invasive species Mining equipment, fossil fuels, impurities in atmosphere Stream? W riparian, mines to river, turbidity, no oxy, incr temp, no inc in nutrient load, but impurities might kill em Remediation When pit, all the bad stuff ughhhh like albedo, erosion, mudslides, landslides, takes a long time to resotre it to climax comm We required it bc it was too big of a problem, so put back topsoil, change slope(grading it [F]-), then add some plants and let bro see if its ok Acid mine draiin rq Add a base to neutralize acid!111 like basic substances, w limestone Cover the tailings Make ponds w bacteria reducin sulur - natural stuff yay Bioremediation - use natural stuff NEXT UNIT PREVIEW ⭐ only from videos Renewable and nonrenewable resources Two sources - non and renewable resources Non : nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas all ff dam nuclear is not a ff, but is nonrenew Renewable - biomass, hydroelectric, solar wind, waves, geothermal Biomass in fuels - amount of wood, cow sht, plant stuff etc Nonrenewable? Once used, no more lol millions of years of heat and pressure to create, not replenishable They cannot be made again for long time, can be made in labs, but too much energy used up No more lol 😂 its fixed and limited Renewable energy!1111!!! - used indefinitely, forever, continuously if used well Biomass - if forest is properly managed, can continue using it for fuel Water - supplies hydroelectric power forever Solar energy yayyy - solar panels Wind turbines - as long as we got wind bruh It isnt reliable saldy 🙁 QUICK QUESTIONS: - Two types of sources? List them - Biomass def - Def of nonrenew - Renew - ex and how they work - Dams - Biomass management - Quality - how good can a renewable/nonrenewable resource be Global Energy Consumption Develop vs developing countries ff use Energy use aint even between develop vs ing FOSSIL FUELS ARE USED MOST, major energy source Coal most used as an energy source, OILLLLLL Nuclear aint too popular tho 😔 not used globally Renewables ARE INCREASING YESSSSSSSSSSSS Fossil fuels dominate 🥵 QQ: - What is the biggest fuel use - Develop countries what - Whats w renewables RULE OF 70 AND CONVERSIONS Pt 2 Dgeveloped countries very reliant on ff More develop, more ff More technology, more stuff, more energy!!111!!! Using bigger birbs, more inventions, more energy Demand for energy increases Biomass is widely available in developing country Availability of the resource tells ppl what fuel ppl use Supply and demand dictate what stuff is needed and what is not Government regulations, incr taxes on some stuff like cars and solar panels QQ: - Why do develop countries use more - What else incre other than in use of ff - What three factors contribute to fuel use and what happens