- Less quantity means less wasteful?
- Substitute quantity with quality?
Life cycle assessments consider a wide range of factors, including raw materials, manufacturing, transport, and eventual disposal.
- Usage threshold
- several impact categories, such as climate change, toxicity, and water use.
How is an item more environmentally friendly?
- Dispose if unsure
- Rinse and dry before recycling
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) ban
- Increase in extreme weather patterns like heat wave can create health risk
- Increasingly violent natural disasters can disrupt infrastructure and cause frequent massive blackouts.
- Loss in biodiversity can cause disruption in food chain which can cause food shortage
+ Colder regions may have more green land. This may allow them to experience an increase in crop yield
- Impact agriculture production in Asia and lead to food shortage
- Likely trigger mass migration