GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Industrial Revolution, Acid Rain
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Human geography and society-environment paradigm: urbanization and climate fires. Large cities are urban heat islands, cities enhance climatic events like thunder, hail, and fog. Fog is also smoke/haze, attributes to the role of topography of the city. The smog trap of la, mexico city, and other valleys types of air pollution source. First generation: sulphur based from coal as energy. Second generation: post-industrial smog, which includes nitric oxides, ozone, etc. Acid rain falls from a combination of pollutants and water droplets. Pollutant traces in greenland ice cap show upturn in ice deposited after 1750. This is around the start of the industrial revolution and an increase in population. Ambivalent modernization: the health/food benefits that led to population growth also led to environmental pollution (double-edged sword) Global warming and the mountain pine beetle ad tropical lung spores along the strait of georgia. Intervention can make a responses to kyoto climactic accord: sustainable cities.
