Globalization and Environmental Issues

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Globalization and Environmental Issues
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• From 1945 to the present, the demand for food
  supply increased, leading to the Green Revolution
  (Doc 1, 2, and 3). The Green Revolution led to
  new technology (Doc 5, 7, and 9). It also had
  successful and failed attempts to improve soil
  conditions in farms (Doc 4, 6, 8, and 10)

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Ever since the Neolithic Revolution

• Man has made an attempt to control his
  environment (slash and burn, irrigation, waste
  management, population density)
• Things increased dramatically with the industrial
  revolution
• As technologies increased, so too did devastation
  to the finite resources the planet
• As man mastered the planet, the planet answered
  back
• With increased globalization, good and bad things
  would happen
• Reliance on energy has consequences

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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

• The Ukrainian city of Chernobyl was the site of
  the worst nuclear disaster in the post-1945
  world.
• Incompetent operators and the inherently unsafe
  design caused a reactor to explode on April 26,
  1986.
• Over 100,000 people were evacuated.
• 30 people died immediately and hundreds died
  later from exposure to radioactive materials.

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Some people believe that globalization is
cultural imperialism.
Can you interpret how this cartoon depicts the
idea of cultural imperialism?
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Lots of people question globalization.
Globalization is forcing my child to work.

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Free trade is destroying us farmers.
Hollywood is ruining our children.
Development is destroying our rain forest.
We have 50 million people living in poverty.
Industrial countries are leaving us out of
Globalization.
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Global Warming or climate crisis
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Kyoto Protocol

• Signed on March 15, 1999, the Kyoto Protocol is
  an agreement under the U.N. Framework Convention
  on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• Countries that ratify commit to reduce emissions
  of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  (IPCC) predicts a rise in temperature of 1.4 C
  (2.5 F ) to 5.8 C between 1990 and 2100.
• If successfully and completely implemented, the
  Protocol will reduce that increase between 0.02
  C and 0.28 C by 2050.
• The United Sates, China and India would not sign
  however. Why?

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Kyoto Protocol

• The U.S. is a signatory to the protocol, but has
  neither ratified nor withdrawn.
• The Senate stated that the U.S. should not sign
  any protocol that did not include binding targets
  and timetables for both developing and
  industrialized nations.
• President George W. Bush indicated that he does
  not intend to submit the treaty for ratification
  because of the strain he believed it would put on
  the economy.
• He emphasized the uncertainties which he asserts
  are present in the climate change issue.

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Hubbert Peak Theory

• The Hubbert Peak Theory states that oil reserves
  are not replenish able and oil production must
  inevitably peak and decline.
• Controversy surrounds the theory.
• M. King Hubbert noticed that the discoveries in
  the U.S. peaked in the 1930s, and concluded that
  production would peak in the 1970s.
• The US peaked in 1971.
• OPEC was able to manipulate oil prices, leading
  to the oil crisis in 1973.
• Most other countries have also peaked.

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Globalization

• Globalization is a series of economic, social,
  technological and political changes that increase
  interdependence and interaction between people in
  disparate locations.
• Globalization Debates
• whether it occurs from 'above' (through
  government and state actions) or 'below' (through
  civil society actions)
• supporters see it as economic savior for the
  world's poor
• opponents consider it oppressive to the
  developing world, destroying local culture and
  contributing to global warming.

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Green Revolution

• Implementation of research and development
  (science and technology) to increase
  agricultural production around the world.
  Perceived by some as neo-colonial for
  commercial use than sustenance.
• Led by Norman Borlaug in Mexico and financed by
  Rockefeller foundation used bioengineering and
  pesticides to stave famine and may have saved up
  to one billion people.

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Back to the docs to be utilized persuasively as
evidence

• Those societies that experienced the Green
  Revolution were also experiencing changes in
  their social structures. In Mexico, women were
  forced to work for free because the farmers
  couldnt afford to pay wages to them and their
  husbands (Doc 7). The caste system in India was
  diminishing due to peasants rising to the middle
  and upper classes from increased in their food
  production (Doc 9). It would help to show how
  strong an effect this change had on Indian
  society if there was a newspaper article of an
  upper class Hindu man describing how offended he
  felt to have to accept people from the lower
  classes into his social class. Document 10 the
  Guatemalan National Coordinating Committee of
  Indigenous Peasants stated that the Green
  Revolution has made people lose respect for the
  indigenous seeds and has contaminated them. The
  members of the committee must also be concerned
  that the Green Revolution will lead Guatemalans
  to also lose respect of their cultural heritage

• Restated the grouping and related it to the
  prompt? Changes in social structures (a
  consequence) Yep. Used evidence from documents?
  Yep. One of the documents used was a POV? Yep.
  Additional document that is related to the
  argument and the prompt? Yep

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They paved paradise

• Pesticides like DDT were utilized.
• Led to environmental movements like Greenpeace
• Rachel Carlsons Silent Spring discussed
  environmental degradation.
• Issues of biodiversity, protectionism and
  limiting carbon emissions flew in the face of
  capitalist and corporate profits.

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Other concerns

• Sea levels rising (environmental refugees)
• Loss of fishing industry
• Deforestation
• Increase in health concerns
• Pollution
• Urban sprawl
• Jared Diamond claims what makes or breaks a
• Society is the appropriate response to
  environmental issues

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