SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Environmental Health, Soil Retrogression And Degradation, Consumerism
11 Dec 2015
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Understand the centrality of profit to capitalism and how this centrality affects agricultural production. Difficulties for capitalization: seasonal farming, access to water, Capitalism: main cause of both globalization and industrialization transportation, etc: long term costs/benefits ignored: human health, enviro health, social justice. Global agriculture dominated by capitalist corporate farming. Understand the immense significance of the original domestication of plants and animals in comparison to the previous gathering and hunting. In gathering and hunting: nature supply low, groups would move to more plentiful environment; no techniques for storing/conserving food. No accumulation of food: absence of surplus over and above subsistence serve human needs. Domestication: involves taming and shaping of wild itself to better: cultivate, agriculture entry of other living things into human. Threats of soil degradation, global warming, population, depletion of non-renewable resources (fossil fuels and water) Examine manual field labour and conditions for agricultural workers.
