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Globalization and
Environmental Issues
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From 1945 to the present, the demand for
food supply increased, leading to the Green
Revolution (Doc 1, 2, and 3). The Green
Revolution led to new technology (Doc 5, 7,
and 9). It also had successful and failed
attempts to improve soil conditions in farms
(Doc 4, 6, 8, and 10)
Ever since the Neolithic
Revolution
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Man has made an attempt to control his environment (slash and burn, irrigation, waste
management, population density)
Things increased dramatically with the industrial revolution
As technologies increased, so too did devastation to the finite resources the planet
As man mastered the planet, the planet answered back
With increased globalization, good and bad things would happen
Reliance on energy has consequences
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
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The Ukrainian city of Chernobyl was
the site of the worst nuclear disaster in
the post-1945 world.
Incompetent operators and the
inherently unsafe design caused a
reactor to explode on April 26, 1986.
Over 100,000 people were evacuated.
30 people died immediately and
hundreds died later from exposure to
radioactive materials.
Some people
believe that
globalization is
“cultural
imperialism”.
Can you interpret how
this cartoon depicts the
idea of “cultural
imperialism?”
Lots of people question globalization.
Globalization
is forcing my
child to work.
.
Free trade
is destroying
us farmers.
Hollywood
is ruining
our
children.
Development
is destroying
our rain forest.
Industrial
countries are
leaving us out
of Globalization.
We have 50
million people
living in poverty.
Global Warming or climate crisis
Kyoto Protocol
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Signed on March 15, 1999, the Kyoto
Protocol is an agreement under the
U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Countries that ratify commit to reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases.
The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) predicts a rise
in temperature of 1.4° C (2.5° F ) to 5.8
°C between 1990 and 2100.
If successfully and completely
implemented, the Protocol will reduce
that increase between 0.02 °C and 0.28
°C by 2050.
The United Sates, China and India
would not sign however. Why?
Kyoto Protocol
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The U.S. is a signatory to the protocol, but has neither ratified nor withdrawn.
The Senate stated that the U.S. should not sign any protocol that did not include
binding targets and timetables for both developing and industrialized nations.
President George W. Bush indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for
ratification because of the strain he believed it would put on the economy.
He emphasized the uncertainties which he asserts are present in the climate change
issue.
Hubbert Peak Theory
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The Hubbert Peak Theory states that oil reserves are not replenish able and oil
production must inevitably peak and decline.
Controversy surrounds the theory.
M. King Hubbert noticed that the discoveries in the U.S. peaked in the 1930s, and
concluded that production would peak in the 1970s.
The US peaked in 1971.
OPEC was able to manipulate oil prices, leading to the oil crisis in 1973.
Most other countries have also peaked.
Globalization
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“Globalization” is a series of economic,
social, technological and political
changes that increase interdependence
and interaction between people in
disparate locations.
Globalization Debates:
 whether it occurs from 'above'
(through government and state
actions) or 'below' (through civil
society actions)
 supporters see it as economic
savior for the world's poor
 opponents consider it oppressive
to the developing world,
destroying local culture and
contributing to global warming.
Green Revolution
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Implementation of research and
development (science and technology)
to increase agricultural production
around the world. Perceived by some
as “neo-colonial” for commercial use
than sustenance.
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Led by Norman Borlaug in Mexico and
financed by Rockefeller foundation
used bioengineering and pesticides to
stave famine and may have saved up to
one billion people.
Back to the docs to be utilized
persuasively as evidence
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Those societies that experienced the Green
Revolution were also experiencing changes in their
social structures. In Mexico, women were forced
to work for free because the farmers couldn’t
afford to pay wages to them and their husbands
(Doc 7). The caste system in India was
diminishing due to peasants rising to the middle
and upper classes from increased in their food
production (Doc 9). It would help to show how
strong an effect this change had on Indian society
if there was a newspaper article of an upper class
Hindu man describing how offended he felt to
have to accept people from the lower classes into
his social class. Document 10 the Guatemalan
National Coordinating Committee of Indigenous
Peasants stated that the Green Revolution has
made people lose respect for the indigenous seeds
and has contaminated them. The members of the
committee must also be concerned that the Green
Revolution will lead Guatemalans to also lose
respect of their cultural heritage
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Restated the grouping and related it to the
prompt? Changes in social structures (a
consequence) Yep. Used evidence from
documents? Yep. One of the documents
used was a POV? Yep. Additional document
that is related to the argument and the
prompt? Yep
They paved paradise…
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Pesticides like DDT were utilized.
Led to environmental movements like
Greenpeace
Rachel Carlson’s Silent Spring
discussed environmental degradation.
Issues of biodiversity, protectionism
and limiting carbon emissions flew in
the face of capitalist and corporate
profits.
Other concerns
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Sea levels rising (environmental refugees)
Loss of fishing industry
Deforestation
Increase in health concerns
Pollution
Urban sprawl
Jared Diamond claims what makes or
breaks a
Society is the appropriate response to
environmental issues
Citations
Slide 2: http://english.pravda.ru/img/idb/chernobyl21.jpg
Slide 3: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/chornobyl_radiation96.jpg
Slide 4: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/nuclear_disasters/images/map_europe.gif
Slide 5: http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150ss97/GH_earth.jpg
Slide 6: http://phoenix.liu.edu/~uroy/externalities/emmisions101802.gif
Slide 7: http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/KyotoProtocol/images/olle.jpg
Slide 8: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/peakoil/nonopecfsu.gif
Slide 9: http://students.umf.maine.edu/~pondcm/globalization.gif
Slide 10: http://www.tatsachen-ueberdeutschland.de/fileadmin/festplatte/deutsch/bilder/05_aussenpolitik/05_02_Nato.jpg
Slide 11: http://www.barraclou.com/memorial/coldwar/nato_expansion.jpg
Slide 12: http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/TEI/NAFTA.jpg
Slide 13: http://cati.csufresno.edu/cab/rese/96/960301/img/fig5.gif
Slide 14: http://www.un.org/UN50/Photos/un50-014.gif
Slide 15: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/wto/images/wto_hq2.jpg
Slide 16: http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb/images/wto-protest.jpg
Slide 17: http://www.deh.gov.au/heritage/programs/rnhp/images/coastal-pollution.jpg