GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Semiconductor Device Fabrication, Superfund, Social Inequality
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Recap: geographies of global interconnection (discuss cole and foster, pellow and park, duhigg and. The production, use, and disposal of the items we use every day (and often hold dear) create: Environmental shadows areas of environmental destruction that often remain hidden from light and that are create by the production, use, and consumption of everyday items. Page 1 (pellow and park): in the public consciousness, high tech is the antithesis of that old-fashioned, fossil fuel-driven industry. The news media normally discuss the new technologies as digitally clean, trafficking in information rather than goods, thriving on creativity rather than muscle. Electronics use tonnnnsss of energy, equal to 30 nuclear plants, diesel generators for back up, disposal/use/production. The underside of silicon valley (and of the new technologies we use): The human suffering, preventable illness and premature death, the exploitation of thousands of workers, widespread ecological devastation, and increasing social inequality that enables the production of these products .
