NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Globalization, Atmospheric Circulation, Invasive Species

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1840
• Professor: Carol Bigwood

Document Summary

Nats 1840 lecture 18 - the environmental impacts of globalization: technology. Impact of globalization on environment, anthropogenic climate change. Transportation technologies, " billions of tons of fuel, ores, cement, fertilizers, and feed- and foodstuffs and an enormous variety of industrial goods" High levels of consumption, extraction technologies, removal and processing of natural resources. Prime movers, sources of power for transportation technologies (engines) , technologies (planes, ships) Cost, reliability and speed of transportation of goods in globalized market. Scope and speed of transportation technology, actions, pace. Processes that occur on all continents or on all oceans or in all societies, not spatially continuous . Invasive species or soil erosion, not spatially connected. Globalization of trade, prime movers, previously unused and environmentally pristine areas, heavy traffic corridors and waste repositories. 1492 europeans discovery of new world, migration, capitalism. Pre-modern globalization (large number of regional centres with small exchange) early modern globalization (16th century. colonialism), expansion and connections of 19th century imperialism.