GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Primitive Accumulation Of Capital, Environmental Degradation, Overproduction
18 Nov 2020
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Global capitalism and the ecology of uneven development. Markets are used to distribute pollution more efficiently, based on arguments that places are. Market-oriented distribution often leads to less equitable exposure of different social and economic groups. Structure of the economy and power relations within it. Create environmental problems and our perception of them. Form a political economy perspective, environmental problems are an integral part of a capitalist economy. Political economy is the study of production and trade and their relations with law, custom and government; and with the distribution of national income and wealth. Social goods and bads will be distributed in the process. The insights of karl marx can be used to describe how capitalist economic systems produce environmental problems. Labor alternation of the natural world by human action to make a living. Commodity a thing that can be bought or sold. Composed of human labor and objects from nature.
