Human Origins Differences between the present and past

Human Origins

Differences between the present and past lifestyles Positive impacts Negative impacts

Us VS Neanderthals

Present Lifestyle - Clothing Nylon Cotton Zara Dior Burberry Polyester Silk Consumerism

Past Lifestyle - Clothing • Wore skin of animals they hunted • Wrapped loosely around their bodies • Not well-tailored

Present Lifestyle - Food Organic food Flavoring Fast-food Cooking ways Genetic-modified (GM) food Preservation

Past Lifestyle - Food Fruits and vegetables Complex diet Meats Seasonal crops

Present Lifestyle - Housing Building materials? ? Individualism Better living condition

Past Lifestyle - Housing • Lived in groups of 50 people • Misconception: all of them lived in caves üMost of them lived in huts • Teepee(圓錐形帳篷) style, from branches and mammoth(毛象) bones, covered with animal skins Hut

Present Lifestyle - Transportation Ships Motor Airplanes vehicles

Past Lifestyle - Transportation By feet

Present Lifestyle - Technology Smartphone

Past Lifestyle - Technology Make useful toolkit Start a fire

Life nowadays is complicated but diversified… What do you think? Positive impacts? Negative impacts?

Positive impact - Clothing • Comfortable • Satisfy wants and needs • Fashion Better lifestyle

Positive impact - Food • Satisfy wants and needs - more diversify E. g. organic food, different types of food, GM food, fast food • More healthy - Nutritional value + food mass

Positive impact - Housing • Living Condition - Different materials - More protective - Well-developed facilities • Individualism - Private space - Option

Positive impact - Transportation • Well-developed transport network Regional boundary • Convenient time saving

Positive impact - Transportation • Convenience • Living standard & lifestyle - FOR daily life entertainment communication study, etc. . .

The changing of clothing— disadvantage Present: A Heavy burden of loan Waste the cotton materials

Past Not warm enough Killed the rare animals

The changing of eating— disadvantage present Unhealthy eating style Unhealthy planting method

past tasteless Loss the nutrition

Housing

Housing • Fresh air cannot be circulated due to the high density of buildings e. g. Buildings in Tseung Kwan O, Tung Chung and Central • As a result, the temperature is very high

Housing • The number of countryside, habitats of animals and natural parks decreases because of the reclamation of the Victoria harbor

Housing • Recreational places become fewer and fewer as most territory is used as residential use

Housing • The condition of the environment and nature is destroyed because so many residential flats exist

Transportation

Transportation • Citizens will do less walking since there are so many transport such as private cars, buses, vans, trains • It is so convenient that people will take public transport instead of walking

Transportation • More vehicles are on the road and sea so it will cause more traffic accidents

Transportation • Less on foot and less exercise, more sitting in the office

Transportation • So many different kinds of transportation so the air pollution is getting even worse

The End Thank you!