§4.3: Worldwide production and consumption (1)

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§4.3: Worldwide production and consumption

Today

• Recap §4.2
• Explanation §4.3 + assignment
• Assignments BuiteNLand

How does the production of meat lead to deforestation of the tropical rainforest?

What is changing in the food industry?

Quite a lot: organic framing, large-scale framing and intensification.

Organic farming

Organic farming uses fewer pesticides and gives animals more space

Large-scale farming

Companies make a lot of the same food. This is the most efficient. 

Intensification

Companies that use knowledge and money for higher yields (opbrengsten). They use a lot of modern technology.

In the future..

• Population growth and increase in prosperity 
• 2050: 70% more food is needed
  
• How can we do this without causing environmental degradation? 
  

Environmental degradation

Running out of natural resources by means of human use

Sustainable food production

Growing enough food without depleting the nature

Name 4 examples of dealing with food in a sustainable way

Four examples of dealing with food in a sustainable way

1. Throw away less
2. Save space by building food factories 
   
3. Organic farming
4. Genetic engineering
   

Today

• Recap §4.2
• Explanation §4.3 + assignment
• Assignments BuiteNLand

Learning goals

• You know how a production chain works
  
• You understand how a global production chain leads to depletion of raw materials and environmental pollution
  

Vocabulary 

Depleting	Uitputten
Production chain	Productieketen
Depletion of raw ma terials	Uitputting van grondstoffen
Environmental pollution	Milieu vervuiling
Cargo ship	Vrachtschip
Raw materials	Grondstoffen

Cell phones

• In which country is your phone made?
• What parts and materials is your phone made of?
• Where do these parts and materials come from?

How many cell phones have you bought/used in the last four years?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. more than 3

What happened with the cell phones you no longer use?

In which country do you think your laptop is made?

How many days does a cargo ship (vrachtschip) take to get from China to The Netherlands?

1. < 15 days
2. 15-24 days
3. 24-36 days
4. 36 days >

Production chain

All the steps or phases of the production process of goods from raw materials into final products

Your laptop's journey

The production chain of a laptop

1. The laptop is designed in a country with a lot of knowledge
2. The production starts
3. The raw materials of a laptop come from many different countries
4. Those raw materials are transported to be processed into different parts
5. All the different parts are transported again to be assembled (samengevoegd)  into one laptop

Minerals and metals

Construct the production chain of 1 of these products (work in pairs):

• Bike
• Jeans
• Coffee
• Chocolate
  
• Shoes

Search on the internet and answer the questions:

• Where do the raw material(s) come from?
  
• Where does the processing of the products take place?
  
• How does the product get to the store in The Netherlands?

Write down: the product and then the production chain

Production chain: jeans

Production chain: depletion and pollution

• Our waste = polluting
• The production of our products = depleting and polluting 

Depletion and pollution

• Depletion of raw materials and energy
• Environmental pollution: 

Mining and production, transportation and packaging, use/consumption, disposal (weggooien)

Depletion of raw materials

Environmental pollution

We're going to watch a videoclip about containers

Answer the following question:

What are the advantages of containers?

What are the advantages of containers?

Learning goals

• You know how a production chain works
  
• You understand how a global production chain leads to depletion of raw materials and environmental pollution
  

Today

• Recap §4.2
• Explanation §4.3 + assignment
• Assignments BuiteNLand

Assignments

• Read §4.3
• Make assignment 1, 2 and 3

Finished? Make assignment 4, 5 and 6