GGRA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Food Desert, Political Ecology
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Justice of eating in the city there is no socio-natural act for humans that one that produces hunger. Without food our bodies would not exist without sufficient food, our bodies would not function properly. Human bodies are linked through socio-metabolic processes. What differentiates humans from others is capacity to imagine different possible futures. Between need and desire food security in america is a big issues emergency food assistance increased by 88% w/i the 25 surveyed cities there is no doubt that hunger is a socio-economic problem. A marxist approach to urban political ecology maintains importance on the natural foundations of life. Material and social conditioning of human bodies & our transforming nature is based on our temporal/spatial social relations the metabolic processed that sustain the body have a direct interaction with its environment. We have a central physiological challenge to avoid hunger. There is ecological problem with the uncertainties that come from us having to gather our food supply.
