HIST 257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spencer R. Weart, Global Cooling, Communalism
7 Dec 2015
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Role of geography varying causes and effects. People act when their health is in jeopardy anthropocentric. Certain places (los angeles) can combat smog, have the resources; however, overall smog worsening. Continue to depend on the processes that produce smog as byproduct, but can dispose of smog with other tech innovations. Funding conservation efforts need a communal effort. How does urban smog form: atmosphere and geography. How does it affect human health: breathing, lung issues, london smog, cancer, industrial processes tend to have more toxic inhalants, has to do with scale cities are more congested, denser, soil. Particles in water groundwater soil plants. Tropospheric air quality and global warming: troposphere is thin particles stick around, cause long- lasting damage, cfcs linger, discuss the significance of the idea that the human impact on (cid:1) (cid:1) earth might cause global cooling. Accessibility goal was to make a splash, generate conversation: targeting a certain audience, huge game changer in political discussions.
