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Book presentation, AP Biology (JFKS Berlin, 2012) "Hot, flat and crowded" - Thomas Friedman
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Hot, Flat, and CrowdedWhy we need a green revolution-And how it can renew America
- Thomas L. Friedman-Release 2.0
Published in 2009
Chu Thuy Duong (AP Bio)
Author
• An internationally renowned author,
reporter & columnist
• 3 Pulitzer Prizes for his work with the
New York Times
• Foreign affairs, including global trade,
the Middle East, and environmental
issues
“Avoid the unmanageable, manage the unavoidable”
I. When the market and Mother Nature hit the wall- Dishonest accounting - Mispricing of risk- Privatizing of gains - Socializing of lossII. Where we are- Petrodictatorship & Petrodollars- Code Green & REEFIGDCPEERPFPCA < TCOBCOG - Sustainability!!III. How we move forward- Energy –Climate EraIII. ChinaIV. America
Renewable Energy Ecosystem For Innovating, Generating and Deploying Clean Power, Energy Efficiency, Resource Productivity, Family Planning, Conservation, Adaptation < True Cost Of Burning Coal, Oil, and Gas
Connection to AP Biology
Loss of biodiversity
The Baijil (river dolphin) represented a GENUS, not a
species
“ One species is now going extinct every 20 minutes”
(181)
“Half of the world’s tropical and temperate forests are now gone… Half the wetlands and a third of the mangroves are gone… 90% of the large predator fish are gone… 20% of the corals are gone… Species are disappearing at rates about 1000 times faster than normal” (82)
Climate change
- Definition (155)- What causes it?
Changes in the earth’s orbit
Burning of fossil fuels, cultivation of rice & livestock,
deforestation
Large volcanic eruptions
Nature, massive releases of greenhouse gases from
beneath the surface
Renewable energyTypes
& working mechanism Pro- Cons-
Solar photovoltaic energy( Sunlight energy)
Clean, steadily cheaper
Battery to store solar-generated electricity
Solar thermal electricity(Mirrors to concentrate sun’s rays to heat a fluid to drive an electric generator)
No need for battery for storageClean, reliable
Expensive
Wind power Clean, cheap Need wind, battery for storage
Geothermal power(steam generated by nature & volcanic rocks)
Clean, reliable Not cheap
Nuclear power Reliable, cleanNot cheap or abundant; nuclear waste?
Connection to Biology
“Stratigraphy”
Information obtained from an ice core:
• Past temperature: isotonic composition of H2O molecule
• Past atmospheric composition: bubbles of old atmospheric air
• Net accumulation
• Dustiness of atmosphere• Vegetation changes• Volcanic history• Anthropogenic emissions• Entrapped microorganisms
• Page 157• Layers are identified from measured
variations in ice composition and impurity content
• The hand auger, the shallow drill, the deep drill
• Dating by annual layer counting
Ice core drilling
Connection to my life
• Reached 6 billions• “Additional people…
disproportionate negative impacts”
• Slowing the rate of population growth, especially in agrarian economies !!
Education, 2 –child policy (or 1)
40°C. NO electricity or water. And that is in the city!
• “[The right of every person to have access to energy] is often overlooked by very smart people, who are dedicated to solving the problems of development” (195)
• 1.4 billion people are left behind !! • Electricity and water shortage every summer. How about
people in rural areas?• Human potential & adaptation?
Highly recommended!
• About current issues (dependency on oil, population growth…)
• Common sense in depth • The economy, politics, environment
interdependence & the need for sustainability• Hypothetical situations what it is like to live in a
“green” future• Statistics, specialists…• Relaxing narrative voice
Bibliography• "LARISSA." Field Program Goals. Project on the Larsen Ice Shelf
System, Antarctica. Web. 25 May 2012. <http://bprc.osu.edu/LARISSA/field-program-goals/>.
• "Thomas L. Friedman Official Biography." About the Author. The New York Times. Web. 25 May 2012. <http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/about-the-author>.
• "Research, University of Copenhagen." Research â University of ��Copenhagen. University of Copenhagen. Web. 25 May 2012. <http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/>.
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