GEOS2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Electronic Waste, Lawrence Summers, Treaty

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Geoscience
• Course: GEOS2121
• Professor: Sophie Webber

Document Summary

Capitalism and the environment: globalisation and uneven development. What is the logic of disposing of pollution. According to economists: neoeconomist vs. marxist political economic perspective on globalisation and e-waste disposal. Globalisation and uneven development in e-waste: globalisation and uneven development as spatial strategies to overcoming the crisis tendencies of capitalism, the exploitation of nature and workers. Increase migration of dirty industries from the global north to global south: the measurements of the costs of pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. 2017: south australia = largest dump for nuclear waste due to reduced regulation, less demand for environmental protection, small population, and a generally poor economy. Increase pollution in south australia = create more employments = economic development: mindset about wastes = pervasive. Million tons of wastes are disposed from the first world to the third world due to cheaper costs and weak regulation.