GG102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: North American Free Trade Agreement, Dspace, World Energy Consumption
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Stress the potential for technological innovations to discover and harness new resources, to provide faster and more effective means of transportation and communication, and to enable new ways of living. It projects a world that will be stabilized and homogenized by supranational or even world" governments. Space, and place, would become inconsequential, transcended by technological fixes. The finite nature of earth"s resources, the fragility of its environment, and population growth rates that exceed the capacity of the peripheral regions to sustain them Irreversible environmental degradation, increasing social and economic polarization, and the breakdown of law and order. Geographers understand the importance of place and thus know that any expansion will be uneven as place mediates the processes of change. The elite: participants in and beneficiaries of the fast world of new transport and communications technologies, globalized production networks, and global consumer culture. The embattled: participants in dependent roles, with fewer benefits and limited opportunities.
