GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carbon Cycle, Manufactured Landscapes, Elizabeth Kolbert

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Sean Field

Document Summary

There is no single or stable cultural-theoretical vocabulary to describe affect. Something has an affective meaning when the object or event changes a persons internal milieu (social environment). Person had an affective reaction to an object or stimulus information about the external world is translated into an internal code or representations. Canada is he only un member to reject landmark indigenous rights document: land rights & territory, pipelines and lumber, tied to all these debates over resources, population & population flow. Senate rejects keystone xl pipeline bill, a close vote: 59-41 tally no to yes, this infrastructure requires cost to support, oil economy of entire globe, connection between fossil fuels and climate change. Climate change and our metabolic relationship with the biophysical world (cid:1: manufactured landscapes documentary, portrayal of how we"ve interacted and changed landscapes, tracing these elements, the impact on biophysical environment. Increasing concentration of co2 and other green-house gasses, like methane, in the atmosphere increasing global temperatures.