ENVS 1000 Lecture : ENVIRONMENTAL_HISTORY_IV.pdf

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

The explorations and exploitations of that new world transformed the old world as well as the new. They set the stage for the supremacy for 400 years of the european way of life, and were the first seeds of the movement towards globalization that is still underway. For environmentalists, we can also see that there was a fundamental clash of ecologies involved: also still underway. One of the most important emerging issues for the 21st century is the mixing of species around the world as part of the process of globalization. The first example of this phenomenon shows how potentially devastating this mixing can be in ecosystems that have no experience with exotic species. When columbus landed in the caribbean in 1492, he had a number of obvious weapons at his disposal, which he and other spanish and portugueuse explorers were able to use to dominate the new world.