GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Urban Sprawl, Atmospheric Circulation, Thermostat
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As we have said repeatedly, we can only prevent those global environmental changes by acting locally. Some of these decisions are up to us as individuals, and many even save us money: we can choose the room temperature, or whether we buy products that were produced on the basis of petrochemicals, rather than natural ingredients. Even harder to make are those changes to our consumption or lifestyle that involve so- called structural constraints: we cannot singlehandedly change the way electricity is generated, or the way garbage is processed after it leaves our curb. In the last lab activity of this module, you will grapple with this last issue. In chapter and module 5, we become introduced to the subdiscipline of cultural geography. We begin in lesson 1 by examining the crucial concept of culture and asking why it is such an important factor to consider in human geography.
