Geography 1400F/G Lecture 2: 2B - Amazon Deforestation.pdf
3 Dec 2014
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With the loss of the tropical rainforests, we face the possibility of an extinction spasm as dramatic and far-reaching as anything in the history of life on earth. Davis: perhaps best defined as the sum total of all thoughts, beliefs, myths and intuitions made manifest today by the myriad cultures of the world humanity"s greatest legacy. " e. g. ~7000 languages. Language map of latin america in 1492: large range of societies (from dense & sedentary to highly mobile) Agricultural surpluses (some of the world"s great agricultural hearths) ~2. 5 5 m (1-11 m ests. ) technology agricultural vs. nomadic highly stratified vs. egalitarian. Lost towns" discovered in amazon (science, 2008) composite of hundreds of images >> from orbiting us defence meteorological satellite program (dmsp) The destruction of the indians of the americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Brazil: 3 main geographic regions: coastal lowlands. Later agriculture + mineral wealth: amazonia.
