INTL DV 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: South Tarawa, Predeterminism, White Supremacy
14 Nov 2020
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People who are constantly sick and dying can"t work as much. You need a lot more technological and medical intervention for the type of growth in society. Subsistence fishing: fishing to feed themselves and family. Require help to function like a modern economy. Unlucky by diamond"s & collier"s standards, past and present. Rising sea levels and climate change are making islands sink. Carbon emissions are almost none, but are impacted the most by it. Eurasia (with emphasis on the eur ) lucks out: East west axis facilitates sharing of practices. Hierarchical societies competing with each other ( darwinism ) More weapons, more diseases, more travel , more conquest, more inequality. Multidisciplinary research to debunk unscientific notions of racial superiority and white supremacy leading to european innovation and dominance in last 200 years (5% of. But: geographic pre-determinism, sweeping overview from 30,000ft , multidisciplinary but missing political economy angle, tone.
