Unit 3 Flashcards
Middle Class
Social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business people and their families.
Impact of a growing middle class
Increases global wealth
More wealthy
Services and products may get more expensive
Impacts on diet
More money can be spent on food. Typically meat based foods
Ecological footprint
Hypothetical area of land required by a society, group or an individual to fulfil all their resource needs and assimilate all their wastes
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Established 1960 to counter oil price cuts by American and European oil companies. 36 percent of petroleum in 2007
Water Energy Nexus
how much water is used to generate and transmit energy. How much energy to collect clean move store and dispose of water
Disposal and Recycling - Ghana
Recycled:
- e-waste and sell it
- burn it such as rubber and plastic
- scrap the raw metal inside it
- 20 percent of e waste is thought to be recycled appropriately
- contributes to climate change and global warming
Socio-economic
method of earning money
residents health is greatly affected
highly profitable
Environmental
has affected the food chain
river is contaminated and unsafe
soil has been contaminated
affected groundwater supply
