GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ecological Debt, Anthropocene, Syphilis
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Humans are dependent on a planetary ecosystem. Anthropocentric forms of globalization have changed ecological interdependencies interdependencies. Exploration and integration has brought much death and destruction. Centrally involved in increasing our knowledge of human-environment. European conquest of the americas led to spread of many diseases and the. Two important observations about how globalization, knowledge about health, and enslavement of africans changing human-environment relations are linked. Global environmental change and health 1. 1 interdependencies. Anthropogenic globalization has often been centrally involved. Humans have been changing the ecosystem since the first forest clearing and. 20th century globalization of capitalism has been attended by the most rapid simple irrigation systems transformations is our world. Use of coal, oil, and gas have begun to change the overall climate. New tech (nuclear power, chemical fertilizers) have created unwanted changes. Urbanizing has had huge implications for human health. Global climate change (impact mostly from cities)
