GASA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unequal Treaty, Jin Chinese, Existential Crisis
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Debate how we can use the rising temp to map the certain phenomenon. Climate science: similar to sociology or botany. It uses several methods based on scientific: the fact that the climate is changing, shouldn"t be an alarm. Climate resilience/climate adaptability: data. which it is doing so. etc. ) Climate justice: a matter of morals, most importantly, climate justice affects humans unequally. Some people will be more affected than others. It brings questions of lively hood, health, and the injustice of how climate change affects the population: colonialism, the conquest of india. By the 18th century of the mughal empire was a honey comb of smaller states who were relatively autonomous and often at war. Here british strategy was proxy wars (supporting one contender), debt, accusation of misrule. Tea went from china to england creating a balance of pyaments problem. Incredible scheme to get the chinese addicted opium.
