GEOG 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Consumerism, United Nations Environment Programme, Cultural Homogenization
31 Oct 2016
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Degradation through raw material production: identify the effects of agro-industrialization and changes in international production and consumption on the physical environment. Agro-industrialization: d(cid:448)lp(cid:859)t of ag(cid:396)i(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e (cid:271)(cid:455) i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:396)po(cid:396)ati(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:396)po(cid:396)ate & i(cid:374)dust(cid:396)ial te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:395)ues (mass market agri, more for less) Of ce(cid:374)t(cid:396)al a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:859)s (cid:396)ai(cid:374)fo(cid:396)ests ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:272)lea(cid:396)ed for cattle grazing. Of senegal used to grow peanuts, oil for fr. Food production always shifts to where it is cheapest, usually ledcs now. Food consumption: increases as demand increases: peanuts grow underground, destruct soil to extract, desertification, land can no longer be used, discuss the environmental consequences of increasing international demand for one raw material. Oil in very high demand, not must extract from unconventional sources (aka dirty oil) Tar sands now biggest construction project in world. Lack of wildlife = fish mutated, lesions from oil spills in bodies of h2o. Oil & natural gas industry accounts for 23% of ghg emissions (canada)
