GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: North Pacific Gyre, Environmental Hazard, Cultural Geography
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Today: finish discussions about li, begin new unit on global interconnection, film-global dumping. Involving/affecting everyone in the world, global process, notion that we use it as universal cultural geographers say it"s dangerous to assume global means universal can"t assume trends affect everyone in the same way. A relative size or extent (scale of the problem, on a big/small scale) A scale is a relative measure one scale is only meaningful relative to another. Scale is only meaningful in relation to other content. Relationships: body/individual, family/home, local/community, city/urban, region (of a country), nation, region (of the world), globe/planet. Individual personal scale, community scale, regional/urban scale, larger/county/state/country scale, global scale problems are different depending on scale of analysis. North pacific gyre garbage patch floating garbage twice the size of texas in the middle of the pacific ocean sits in sun breaks down into microscopic pieces goes into food chains. Global - is a scale for approaching/evaluating/understanding social + environmental issues.
