GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antimicrobial Resistance, Food Security
22 Dec 2020
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Refugees, idps, indigenous populations moved from colonialism. Average number of people migrating to get to work. Movement of disease vectors & reservoirs (livestock, mosquitoes, etc. ) Movement of decision- making power example scenarios: Factors of globalization that affect the transmissions and spread of sars. Geographic locations --> industrializing locations (presence of factories) More populated areas will have more people --> increased fossil fuel, waste, greenhouse gas emissions. Economic focus/concentration of coal or industry plants. Using and creating indoor smoke --> pollution. Food security: having relatively easy access to safe and nutritious food (or lack of) The distribution of food is the real issue. Food reveals the uneven development and the food wastes that come from wealthier countries. We aren"t structured in a way to save food. How they are grown, processed, traded reveal power structures. Can be a starting point for change. Jumped scale to become a global commodity from being from a very localized and specific point of origin.
