Upcoming Air Pollution Quiz Friday.

Review: Take a careful look at the Linoit, especially the pictures in pink.

Know the effects of El Nino and La Nina on weather in Iowa.

Understand the trace amounts of chemicals which can affect the carbon cycle.

Be able to define extreme weather.

Understand the mechanism ocean acidification as a problem.

Be able to explain who is most vulnerable to flooding.

Be able to discuss acid rain affecting others besides those creating it.

Your Carbon Footprint

You sit down to a lovely dinner featuring Fareway protein (chicken from North Carolina or beef from Texas), Idaho potatoes, green grapes (from Chile), green beans frozen from the last farmer's market, and bread and butter from Kwik Star (shipped in from Wisconsin). What is the carbon footprint of this meal?

Well, first we need to figure out what a carbon footprint is. Wikipedia can help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

You have 10 minutes to develop your logic.


Part 2:  Watch the video

Questions for Reflection
1. Do you really think it matters that America eats food with a large carbon footprint? Remember, the KCRG guys said yesterday that we all change the environment, but that a large group of people change it more than a small group of people.
   
2. Would you be willing to can or freeze your food?
   
3. Would you be willing to avoid buying fresh fruit that traveled outside the bounds of the US?
   
4. Grocery prices are most affected by what factors: wages, packaging,or shipping costs?
   
5. Farmers markets have become popular with a slogan of "buy fresh, buy local". Do you shop at these? Why or why not?
   
6. Sometimes we can decrease our meal cost by substituting ONE item. Which would you pick in this meal?
   

Quick Topic on Extreme Weather

Discuss Extreme Weather Questions

Sources and Sinks for CO2 and Methane

Atmospheric science

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/439.html 


Carbon Sequestration

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Carbon Dioxide Lab from Chapter 2

Data document

Monday, 11/21

Please go to bgreentv and summarize 3 videos using the following QuickTopic space.

Include the following:

• Name of Clip
• Summary
• Group Point of View (agree with what they are doing)

Discuss BGREENTV (air pollution)

Take Home Essay for Population Unit

You must create a reflection that establishes your viewpoint about golden rice.  Provided is a GMO (genetically-modified) rice case study

a) a preventative to the tragedy of the commons or

b) a tool that will cause the tragedy of the commons.

Your reflection must include the following:

• evidence that supports your position, pro or con
• application to one of the countries you studied on the population pyramid
• your own position on common values society should share
• your own position on sharing or trading resources in the world
• your own position on the best form of politics to avoid the tragedy of the commons 

This reflection is your unit 2 test.   The format is up to you.

30 points

Explanation of thesis, pro or con (5 points)

Application to one of the countries studied (5 points)

Your explanation of our moral obligation to all seven billion people on this planet in terms of food (5 points)

Your explanation of how much charity vs. trade we should provide or expect on this planet (5 points)

Your explanation of how politics could help or hinder such an effort. (5 points)
Quality (5 points)

Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons with Your Own Population Plan

Today, you will pick a partner and you will work together. You need to pick a country from North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.

Write your country names on the board under your groups. Once you pick a country, no one else can have it. NO ONE MAY PICK THE US, INDIA, OR CHINA.

Enter the basic data you find at the Information Please Almanac or the CIA Factbook at this shared data sheet

Eight pillars for population stability (from your book)

• family planning
• health care
• national population rules
• improve the lives of women
• educate the population
• help men become better parents and should responsibility for birth control
• stop consuming so many resources

Now, using the data gathered yesterday and the eight pillars of controlling population, think about the four countries you have. These four countries will need to have the same decisions made for each of them, and they may need to transfer resources or people from one country to another.

How will you:

1. make certain that there is access to clean water
2. everyone gets fed adequately
3. there are enough workers to take care of the old
4. there are enough workers that are skilled in the jobs available in society
5. raise the longevity expectation
6. lower the infant mortality
7. make sure people are motivated to work
8. keep political stability
9. allow the resources to be used
10. keep the religious groups and community values intact
11. the populations of the four regions stay stable

You must create at least 3 artifacts and a presentation for others in the class.  This is due tomorrow at the end of class.   (artifacts include diagrams, a list of legislative rules, color-coded charts, etc.)

Age-Structure Diagrams

Population 1 

Population 2

Chapter 5, Book

Explain why the 8 factors listed for population control are effective in a first world country, not as effective in a second world country, and least effective in a third world country.

Thursday, 11/10/11

FIRST 20 MINUTES:   Finish the video



SECOND 40 MINUTES:    Read the case study on deer management.
Decide which of the role players in the scenario is the most reasonable, and detail why you believe this to be so.   Pick an area of the country where deer are plentiful (no more than 1/4 of a state) , and then another where deer are not plentiful.    Think about the biome that is represented by these two settings.

Use the 4 study questions found in the case study to help think about how you will manage deer herds in these two settings. (kill 'em, introduce tertiary predators, stop hunting, sterilize them, or a million other things.)   Create a comparison poster or digital artifact that shows me your understanding of the deer's role as a consumer, the links it has to the food web, and how the tragedy of the commons can be dealt with.

LAST 20 MINUTES:   Explain how aging the deer population can impact how we understand the dynamics of deer in a location by trying to understand the resources found here

Is the Tragedy of the Commons Avoidable.

First 20 minutes

A later paper is in the front chalk tray; called "Revisiting the Tragedy of the Commons".   Please read it.  As you do so, we need to ask ourselves if the three observations, or assumptions, at the beginning of the chapter are true.   If we could set these up, perhaps we could avoid a tragedy of the commons.


1) How likely is it that we can develop a series of judgments and values for the world that can be mutally agreed upon?


2) How do we communicate the judgments and values to the whole of humanity?


3) Who administers and corrects when the judgments and values are in disarray?


Think carefully about these statements.   You'll be using the opinions and answers to these questions on Friday.

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Second 30 minutes:
Games on the Tragedy of the Commons

Play one of the Single Person games on the tragedy of the commons (farming or whaling).      When you get done, you will be having a discussion on Quick Topic





Discuss Tragedy of the Commons










DRINK Break
Last Chunk of Time

To the Textbook!   Please watch at least 30 minutes of the Chapter 5 video, and answer the following questions:


As you watch the video, think about the following focus questions as a note-taking strategy.

1. What is the value of census information?
2. What kinds of problems do social demographers help solve?
3. Why focus on U.S. population dynamics in particular?
4. Why is there disagreement about the carrying capacity of the Earth?
5. What assumptions are used to determine sustainability?
6. How does an increasing global market influence sustainability of the planet?
7. How does technology relate to sustainability of the planet?
8. What is meant by market based solutions to sustainability?
9.What are the trends as a region moves from pre-industrial to industrial characteristics or from rural
dominated populations to urban concentration?

Is the Tragedy of the Commons Real?

The Tragedy of the Commons

NIMBY

 We'll need to read and understand these two above articles, and then apply the concept in the face of new developments needed to accommodate or make life convenient for growing populations.

Tragedy of the Commons

definition:



examples:



assumptions:



Is it inevitable?




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NIMBY

def


How is it similar or different to Tragedy of the Commons?






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Do these factors affecting population represent Tragedy or NIMBY concerns?  Or is something else afoot?  Explain your reasoning.

• inadequate housing resulting in slums made of tin and cardboard
• hunger affecting 1 of 7 people (in America, 15% of the population receives food benefits)
• death rates due to malaria 

Further reading

What do you think of World Population?

http://7billionactions.org/data


http://www.worldof7billion.org/wall_chart


http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/


Looking through these websites, you should be able to tell me

• what the Millenium Developmental Goals are/whether they are realistic
• the state of population in an underdeveloped country
• reasons why populations has grown so much since the mid-1600s.

This can be a one-page summary, a poster, or a series of notecards.

Lab: Biomes Application

You have Tuesday and Wednesday to divide and conquer.   You will have access to this information on Thursday.


Biome interactive lab

===Case Study 1====

Coyotes in a Texas biome

Oysters in Cheasapeake Bay

====Case Study 2====
Geochemical Effects of the Dead Zone

Geochemical effects of Fish