GEO 208 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 208
• Professor: Philip Coppack

Document Summary

The things that influence and shape our lives don"t, won"t, can"t and increasingly, refuse to respect political/social/economic/cultural and environmental boundaries: demographics. Profits: technology, resource use, environment, health, national. Interests: short term greed over long term need. All of these need their boundaries, their limits, their balances to work. And all of those boundaries, limits, and balances are ignored at our peril. Explaining now past and present: perhaps a better title for this course would be, the new tribalism: how globalism spawned populism and evidence based. Edmund burke, john locke, jean-jacques rosseau, etc) were called political economists: another important distinction that you should know lies in the distinction between what are political systems and what are economic systems. Federation what"s left of the old ussr). Yet nations state are rarely pure models of political economies: for example, let"s look at this thing called capitalism.