SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Paris Agreement, Dependency Theory, Developed Country
30 Nov 2017
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Nations must reduce the carbon emissions to prevent global warming (paris climate. People were able to feed larger groups. What we eat is tied to everything else. Exporting pollution and weakness of economy for developed nation. Labor: someone must actually produce/process the food. Environment: the use of fossil fuels, pesticides, all relate to climate shifts. Health: use of steroids, growth hormones, and fertilizers. Inequality: some people have more access to food than others. Dependency theory: export commodity dependence as a legacy of colonialism. Modernization theory: modern agriculture as banishing hunger and famine. Wealthy countries can spread their pollution to underdeveloped countries. Advanced countries can clean up their water systems. Role of trade, labor, and race to the bottom . To produce things at lower costs you cut wages and labor standards. Coral reefs are diminishing which is decreasing biodiversity. Cutting down trees and forests to convert the areas to farmlands, urban use, and.
