Module 29: Land use

APES Sem2
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Where are we?
Unit 5, Ch. 10: Modules 29, 30: Land: public and private
Next: Energy Unit 6: ch. 12-13 mods 34-40 (6 mods)
Following: Unit 7: Pollution-health Ch. 14-17, mods 41-58 (17 mods)
Last: Unit 8: sustainability, biodiversity Ch. 18-20, mods 59-66 (7 mods)
Overview:The biggest challenges your generation will face are:
sustainability
pollution
climate change 
resource constraints
biodiversity
Recall: energy->water->food->culture
In semester one, we learned about the building blocks of these concepts.
In semester two, you will see them integrate more and more...
Consider: Europeans 1492 -> The New World
Earth 2022 -> Mars
"go west young man"
Sustainability 2025: Semester two 
Conservation/Land use
Energy
Pollution
Climate changeChallenge:How can you describe a round staircase to someone without using your hands?
How can you describe deep nature to someone who has never seen it?
National parks: positive, motivated by joy of the wilderness and natureSustainability/climate change: negative, based on fear: "climate crisis"Tito Jankowski : "the climate crisis is the biggest business opportunity in the history of mankind"
Three main points: Living together, thinking of forever...
Tragedy of the Commons
Conservation movement
Urban Sprawl
Random question: GPS ranching-why is this closer to pre-contact buffalo herds?
Tragedy of the commons (old idea, new article) 1968 Garret Harding KNOW THIS...An old 1833 concept from farming villages, article updated in 1968 this to include rivers, streams, ocean, air...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
What the heck are "commons"?What are some examples here at HPA of the "Tragedy of the commons"?Drama folks: what is the root of the word tragedy? (truly random)
Econ students may know this one:Externalized costs, externality: shedding financial responsibility for your impact the the wholeCreate an example here in class: someone makes money doing something, the community pays the price
Japanese Battery example (gruesome):e.g. Minamata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease-----------------------
Conservation movement: Important peeps:  Some of these are also covered in your English classes, or they will be in college
Ralph Waldo Emerson-"Nature" "behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present" 1837https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Henry David Thoreau-Walden "truth in nature and wilderness over the deceits of urban civilization". 1845https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Ansel Adams: Photographer championed the National Parks: 1920-1980https://elab.hpa.edu/apes/videos/ansel_adams.mp4
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"More than any other artist of the century, he would help transform the meaning of "wilderness" in America and change what people thought and felt about their own land"
"It's a place that you step into, and you don't know what's going to happen, a place that can surprise you, it's a place where you are small, where being small is not a bad thing, where being small is actually a wonderful thing"-Carl Pope, Sierra Club
"...The world is beautiful, that humanity is part of this larger world, that the concerns of the moment are part but not separate from a larger system of forces that that connect us to all of creation"Jonathan Spaulding, Biographer
Question: How did his photographs change the awareness of the public? People usually care about what they know...Teddy Roosevelt used this to create parks in the Southwest US...
Aldo Leopold-environmental ethics, wildlife management, conservation, Sand County Almanac (Wisconsin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold
John Muir-started the Sierra Club: "wilderness mirrors divinity, nourishes humanity and vivifies the spirit"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir
Rachel Carson-silent spring DDT (persistent pesticide, weakens bird egg shells), 1963:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DichlorodiphenyltrichloroethaneVERY important person-why?
...back to economics...
MSY: Maximum sustainable yield: max renewable output without compromising the collective futureSee: native peoples: "seventh son of seventh son"Also: "Sustainability = thinking about forever"See diagram in chapter, greatest growth is at 50% of carrying capacity (there's that word again!)
Protected lands:
Screenshot 2025-01-09 at 6.32.52 AM.pngPublic lands: often victim of economic predation (e.g. Burma illegal logging)Other side: NRDC and others, purchase lands to protect them from predatory practices (e.g. Amazon basin)In the US: National Parks are one example of a national recognition of several things:
Spiritual/psychological benefit to nature
Preservation of resources for future generations
Recreation
Habitat preservation for species (can be land, ocean, islands, etc.)
See also Amboseli in Kenya, Serengeti in Tanzania (Tanganyika+Zanzibar), Kruger park in S. Africa (Afrikaans)
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