GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Columbian Exchange, Environmental Degradation, Fertile Crescent
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Ggr101 anthropocene: readings 8-21 and power points since the midterm --> skim through the paper on el. Nino and disease: exam essay question will be like the essay question on the columbian exchange, water will replace oil as the world"s key commodity. Revolution, the industrial revolution: by 2050 the population will be around 9 billion where most of the increase occurs in. It begins with the development of plant and animal domestication e. g. fertile crescent - got into trouble fairly quickly with soil erosion and the intensive irrigation system. 300 years of change show that there were semi-natural conditions to crop land material: borneo was forest covered but very quickly the land is deforested and in 2010 only 30% of the forest is left. In north america most areas in the east prior to european settlement, most of these parts were forest covered and by 1920 we can see that much of this is gone.
