SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Overfishing, Dependency Theory, Industrial Revolution

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Caglar Cetin, Samee Shirazi, Tiffany Joseph

Document Summary

Soc 248- lecture notes- lecture 21: ecology and climate change. Environment, food, and society: hunter-gatherers, split into horticultural societies and pastoral societies, followed by agricultural societies, followed by industrial revolution, followed by industrial and post-industrial societies. Inequality: some have access to more food, healthy foods and others have too little food, have to rely on unhealthy foods. Food and development: dependency theory: export commodity dependence as legacy of colonialism and weakness of economy for developed nations, modernization theory: modern agricultural techniques are banishing hunger and famine by increasing production. Deforestation and other changes: deforestation: cutting down trees and forests, leads to desertification (turning an area into a desert, tropical rain forests: cut down for timber, farmland, and cattle grazing. Increased international demand for brazilian beef: disease free, linked to: economy (currency devaluation) People were able to deforest faster, build roads: labor (slave labor, forests are our source of oxygen.