Globalisation, migration and the environment
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- Globalisation, the environment and migration
- Globalisation and the environment
- "along with economic globalisation has come the globalisation of environmental damage" Robert & Newall 2017
- Viewing the Earth in the age of globalisation
- Spaceship earth- henry George 1879
- Significant when people saw the 'blue marble'
- Encourages everyone on Earth to act as a harmonious crew working towards greater good
- gives impression we can fix mess we've made e.g. climate change
- doesn't account for inequality, gives illusion we are all in charge- we are not all environmental decision makers
- Gaia hypothesis- James Lovelock (1979)
- 'Mother earth'- humans are dependent on the earth for life and support
- Earth is self evolving, self regulating, self sustaining
- does not fit with Darwin's theory- cannot reproduce itself
- Limits of growth- Malthus
- A limit on the amount of people on earth
- suggests globalisation should be limited to save the planet
- what about sustainability? pessimistic
- Cornucopian theory
- Human technology will provide solutions to Earths environmental crisis
- Not sustainable- not everyone can access technology
- Spaceship earth- henry George 1879
- Impacts of globalisation
- 1.Locality- changes land, labour and resources towards meeting the demand of the global market at the expense of the local subsistence- Newall 2017
- 2. Migration- loss of local markets for smallholders drives migration from rural to urban residence- environmental impact increase in air pollution. 2050 double the amount of people will live in cities
- 3.Energy-global production and distribution means massive increase in energy- bunker fuel bad fuel
- 4.Resource depletion -unequal power relations, devastating impacts on the environment
- 5.decreased diversity- globalisation of agricultural systems have been one of the most important causes of increase in green house gasses
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- Anthropocene
- distinct assemblage of things in the sedimentary record on the planet- Dalby 2018
- Human activity is so vast and permanent that it can be picked up on geological record- Dalby 2007. Humans are changing the air and other processes of the biosphere that we live in a new geological era
- The Biosphere is an active essential component within Earth- humans now have capacity to alter the earth system in ways that threaten the components humans depend on
- Plastic pollution has increased massively, ocean acidification- loss of coral
- Habitat destruction has lead to the 6th extinction Kolbert 2014
- 2/3 of farmland has been somewhat degraded, half of wetlands have been destroyed. up to 50% of all plant and animal species most in global south will disappear by the end of the century- Steger 2017
- Invasive species are introduced by globalisation- ecological damage
- When did the anthropocene start
- 1. mass farming, 10,000 years ago- increase agriculture and CO2
- 2. Colonisation of Americas- 500years ago, reforestation due to rapid depopulation less co2, mini ice age
- 3. industrial revolution-250 years ago, rapid increase in CO2, Climate change, chemical composition of the atmosphere
- 4. Nuclear technology- 70 years ago, isotopes into atmosphere, coincided with population boom and plastic pollution
- Uneven geography of carbon emissions
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- Globalisation and the environment
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