GGRA02H3 Lecture 11: lecture 11
Document Summary
State regulated economy - state in the name of the people would control production and distributed. Supply/ territory of land -- resource depletion - water. Global futures - ideologies, contradictions, resistance and alternatives. Green: the global commons (of equal access and use by the people) Environmental change - climate change, disease, deforestation. Conflicts and cultural dissonance (discordance in people"s values) Global socio-economic disparity and poverty -- demonstrations. Environmental processes everyone is contributing to/responsible for. The alternative should be one of achieving/ seeing the world as an environmental common. Has to adapt to species (humans, as are aggressive) Varies upon technology www. notesolution. com fair trade, local market systems local food plus protectionism (but also anti-protectionism where rich economies are. Opposition to tncs -- global domination, branding, monopoly/ oligopoly power, labour exploitation. Rejection of free trade -- perpetuates global disparities [ rich controls the global trade system] , increases dependency on foreign imports, threatens local and national autonomy.
