SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Coltan, Electronic Waste, Agribusiness
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Patterns in and causes of changing energy consumption. Wood: deforestation, coal: coal mine (hard to extract, black lung), oil (lots of war for oil) Stakeholder: world bank because they said to chad that if. In 2008, the developing world out places developed world in the energy use. Demographic transition theory: they are growing their factories, people need homes, gas and electricity to run. China and india are in the lead of energy consumption. Social problems associated with energy sources (wood, coal, oil) Chad-cameroon pipeline (expectations, realities, compensation, stakeholders) you do not build a pipeline, we are going to cut fund. People thought that the chad- cameroon pipeline was going to benefit them. However, what ended happening was that the country was in a much better position than when the pipeline was not build at all. Before the construction of the pipeline, the coral reef existed. After the pipeline, the coral reef was gone and all the fish died.