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-Stuff moves through a system: materials economy

-->System in crisis with government on top

1.      Extraction= natural resource exploitation= trashing the planet

First limit: natural resources (during the past 3 decades      1/3 of the planets natural resource space has been consumed)

U.S.: less than 4%of original forest left; 40% undrinkable water (if everyone consumes like the U.S., we would need 3-5 planets) they use 3rd world countries for material because their own is already on their limits

80% of original forest in the world: gone

2.      Production= using energy to mix natural resources with toxic chemicals to make toxic contaminated products

over 100.000 synthetic chemicals in use

“Toxics in-toxics out”: toxics that get produced in the factories goes into our home/ bodies

Food with highest level of contaminants: human breast milk (lots of women are factory workers) who come from already trashed countries with no other option but to work with toxic chemicals

Pollution: over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year in the U.S.

3.      Distribution= selling the toxic-contaminated products as quickly as possible (low pricesà low wages)

Externalised costs: caused by producer, carried by whole society

People from step 1 paid with loss of natural resources; people from step 2 paid with loss of clean air; people from step 3 paid by having to cover their own health insurance so that consumers can pay little prices for their products and buy more stuff)

4.      Consumption= ultimate purpose

planned obsolescence (product is planned to break) & perceived obsolescence (convinces us to throw away stuff that is in perfect condition)

media tells us what’s wrong/right

work-watch-spend-treadmill (never ending cycle): work> get home (exhausted)> watch TV to relax (ads tell us what’s new on the market)> go to the mall to buy new stuff> poor so we have to work again… NO HAPPINESS

5.      Disposal= goes in landfill

pollution of air, land, water (e.g. burning garbage releases toxics from stage 2 into air)

climate change!

Companies don’t want to deal with garbage: export trash to already trashed countries (stage 1)

Solution: recycling

Not enough

A lot can’t be recycled because of too much toxics or too many layers of material (metal, plastic)

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Polar Ice
-unexpectedly fast warming of the Arctic
-wide spread melting of glaciers and sea ice
-shortening of the snow season
-polar bears and seals are threatened
-influence of Arctic warming on global climate
-release of huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane into atmosphere
-change of ocean circulation patterns -> responsible for north-western Europe‘s mild winters
-sea-level rise by 6-7 metres

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Weather
-rapid rise in levels of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere
->increase of extreme weather conditions/natural disasters
-extreme rainfalls/floods
-intense heatwaves
-heavy storms, snowstorms, forest fires, retreat of glaciers
->increase of deaths
->rise of economic costs

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Biodiversity
rising temperatures -> destruction of natural habits -> species will be forced to move towards the poles/higher up the mountains -> impossible for many/ too few to survive -> over a million species will die out

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Health
rising temperatures, droughts, high rainfalls, storms
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crop losses
unclean food
contaminated water
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doubling of deaths in the next 30 years due to
-increase of malnutrition
-outbreaks of diarrhoea, malaria, fever
-great number of heat strokes
-rise of kidney problems due to dehydration