GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Steamboat, Black Canadians, Ollanta Humala
5 Apr 2016
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Making lain america through extracive industries: extracive industry in the making of lain america, the issues around extracive industries: land, environment, violence, distribuion, the canadian connecion. Most common: taking a resource from the ground to sell elsewhere. Value extracted from a place in a non-sustainable way. Brazil exports iron ore and oil the most. Valuable commodity extracted in a non-sustainable manner---boom ex. Bust: resource deplete, or price collapse, or environmental self-destrucion . Resource booms in lain america: amazon as example. Canadian mining companies in lain america: control 50 to 70% of mining industry in region, less in oil and gas but sill signiicant. Honduras as the world"s deadliest country for environmental acivists. Pay enough taxes or the government will take over extracive industries. Government beneits by geing money from the mining industries: corrupt countries taking all the money and not helping the populaion of the country, dictatorships most likely to ill their pockets.
