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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY. LATIN AMERICA. MEXICO CITY. Air quality and smog is among the worst in the world Why ? Dense Populations Few Pollution /Emission Regulations Surrounding Mountains trap pollution. VW Beetles produced until 2003 with little change. Torre de Especialidades Tower

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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

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  1. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY LATIN AMERICA

  2. MEXICO CITY • Air quality and smog is among the worst in the world • Why? • Dense Populations • Few Pollution /Emission Regulations • Surrounding Mountains trap pollution VW Beetles produced until 2003 with little change

  3. Torre de EspecialidadesTower Hospital in Mexico These honey-comb shaped panels are designed to absorb pollution

  4. MEXICO CITY • Primate City – cities that are the country’s most important politically, economically, and vastly larger than any other city in the country • Founded on Aztec made-man island

  5. MEXICO CITY • Built on drained swamp land • Much of Mexico has underground rivers carving caves and caverns in the soft limestone • Sink Holes – collapsing of underground cave ceilings

  6. Guatemala City

  7. CENTRAL AMERICA • Panama Canal • Began during Industrial Revolution • Shorten the trip by nearly 8,000 miles • Connect Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

  8. Panama Canal

  9. CENTRAL AMERICA • Eco Tourism – Guided tourism that generates revenue and education about rare and often endangered environment

  10. ECOTOURISM

  11. SOUTH AMERCIA Venezuela • One of the original members of OPEC • Produces 4% of the world’s oil • Venezuela was named by Columbus because coastal Indians build house on stilts • Means “New Venice” • Why do you think they built homes like that?

  12. Floating Island on Lake Titicaca

  13. AMAZON • Subsistence Agriculture • Farming for family or village’s needs • Usually takes place in Lesser Developed Countries (LDC) or very rural areas • Slash and Burn Agriculture – type of subsistent agriculture that burns jungles and forest for farmland • Negatives • Deforestation – Removal of large areas of trees – often, not replaced • Soil Erosion – thin layer of soil drains in the Amazon River. It is very difficult to replenish • Loss of habitat

  14. AMAZON • Amazon Rainforest is the largest concentration of trees in the world • Considered the lungs of Earth • Lumber is an important export for Brazil • Those cleared lands often became cattle farms for their beef export to the US • To get the natural resources out of the jungle more easily, Brazil is constructing the TRAN-AMAZONIAN HIGHWAY

  15. TRANS-AMAZONIAN HIGHWAY • 1970 Brazil’s military leader saw the poverty that was in the north east and decided to open the dense unsettle regions to the west • When complete the highway will be 3000 miles long connecting Peru to the Atlantic

  16. ENERGY SOURCES RENEWABLE RESOURCES NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES does not replace itself, either at all, or at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction anything that can be replenished over time IS IT RENEWABLE OR NOT? TREE REMOVAL/LUMBER COAL SOLAR ENERGY HUMAN LABOR FOSSIL FUELS ETHANOL

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