What does the Population & Economics have to do with it? How does the Use of Technology Affect Us, the Environment, and Our Future? What does the Population & Economics have to do with it?

Current Population: 7.1 Billion (as of 11/17/13) Google searches: 3 Billion searches today! Emails sent today: 164 Billion! Overweight people in the world: 1.5 Billion Underweight people in the world: 896 Million People with no safe drinking source: 761 Million CO2 Emissions: 30 Billion tons this year Toxic Emissions: 8.6 Million tons this year Forests lost this year: 4 Million hectares Oil barrels left: 1.2 Trillion Solar energy striking earth today: 2.6 Trillion Source: http://www.worldometers.info/

Economics - Supply & Demand With so many people in the world to provide food, clean water, clothes, shelter (and recreation) for, who gets… What and Why? How do they get it?

Economics – Supply & Demand Economics is about how we use our resources (ex: $, land, technology) to supply the demands (needs and wants) of a society.

Industrial Revolution In the 1800’s, America went from producing individual, hand-made products to using machines for mass manufacturing and…

assembly line-type production.

More People, More Demands – at What Cost to the Environment?

As a result of these economic activities that use technology, what happens to the environment? Commercial Ranching = More cows = more methane gases in the environment Commercial Agriculture = more chemicals, pesticides and pollution in the soil, groundwater, oceans Commercial fishing, tourism = coral reef damage, pollution, loss of fish Transportation = burning fossil fuels (oil, gas) results in releasing more carbon dioxide into the environment = global warming = climate change Grocery Stores = land use, wasted products, plastic packaging dumped into landfills; not biodegradable

Again, What Drives Economics? Our demands - needs and wants - of many, many things… So what does the government and big (multinational) companies do? They try to meet those demands in great supply. Hmmm…can anyone say “Black Friday?!”

Ever wonder: How does that cell phone get into your pocket Ever wonder: How does that cell phone get into your pocket? (Demand: You really want/need that cell phone!) We are dependent on technology to supply the world of its many demands, but there are hidden costs to the planet and to us. Are we being ETHICAL users of technology?

Are we being Ethical users of technology? Ethical - involving questions of right and wrong behavior : relating to ethics : following accepted rules of behavior : morally right and good http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary

What natural resources are used to make a phone? Oil is in almost everything!

What part of the environment does that affect What part of the environment does that affect? (air, land, water quality)

Where do you think that cell phone is made? Why? Inside a factory in China

Outside a factory in China

http://www. huffingtonpost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/average-cost-factory-worker_n_1327413.html

'Mass suicide' protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, threatened to commit suicide by leaping from their factory roof in protest at their working conditions. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988/Mass-suicide-protest-at-Apple-manufacturer-Foxconn-factory.html

How does that phone get to the U.S.? By air land or sea

To the store

All that for a little cell phone in your pocket!

Where Does it end up in a couple years Where Does it end up in a couple years? How does this affect the planet and the environment? Last year an estimated 1.2 billion cell phones were sold, along with between 51,000 and 82,000 tonnes of chargers. It is estimated that “the standardization of cellphone chargers could cut energy consumption by as much as 50 per cent globally and could reduce greenhouse gases by as much as 13.6 to 21.8 million tonnes per year.”  - http://1greengeneration.elementsintime.com

How can you / we be ethical users of technology in the future?