Geography 1400F/G Lecture 10: 10 Lecture 21/10/2015
16 Feb 2016
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Synergistic: expanding resource demands, flows, and capacity to extract (part of intensifying political + economic competition. Also: exporting of excess population, especially between 1820-1930. Colonies of rule" of europe"s 1820 population settled in. Coal was the major energy source in the industrial revolution. Until ww2, the u. s. was the largest oil exporter. John d. rockefeller (1879) was an aggressive key player in the early growth of the oil industry: he created standard oil, which was a monopoly. World population is dramatically increasing since the industrial revolution. The growth is related to the industrial revolution and fossil energy. Rees: for most of history, humanity = solar societies". Fossil energy: the lifeblood" of the global economy. Most of the the largest companies in the world are oil corporations. Risk: oil is the most profitable industry based on return on revenues. For the assignment, explain uneven production, uneven consumption, and relate it to of world"s net primary energy supply decarbonizing.
