1. Humans and the "Environment"
   1. Sustainability
      1. Ability of natural systems and human cultural systems and political economies to survive and adapt to the changing environment indefinitely
      2. Humans are the only being capable of managing the E
      3. Reliance on Solar Energy
         1. the sun feeds plants, why not us?
         2. solar energy really lies behind all of our being
         3. the plants allow human environments to exist
         4. There is a strong relationship between the natural environment and our well-being
      4. Biodiversity
         1. The multiplex forms of organisms in biomes
         2. those organisms provide services
      5. Chemical Cycling
         1. carbon cycle
         2. water cycle
         3. RE ... cycle
   2. "Humanvironment"
      1. There is no simple phrase to describe the fact that the human exists in an environment
      2. I-E language depicts the environment as the object, rather than us as a subject living inside the object meaning where does it exist?
   3. Global Warming/Climate Change
      1. Anthropogenic
         1. human caused
      2. Greenhouse Effect
         1. The car in the summer time gets really hot!
      3. Anthropogenic Causes
         1. Carbon Dioxide
            1. Source
            2. Fossil Fuel Burning
            3. 50%
            4. CFCs
            5. 25%
         2. Methane
            1. Source
            2. Burning Rain Forests
            3. Cow Farts and Shit
         3. Nitrous Oxide
2. Glbzation and "the Environment"
   1. The Danube River involves lots and lots of geopolitics
   2. Video Notes
      1. Globalization
         1. Conflict
            1. Transport Lobby EU
            2. Euro-liberalism
            3. Economic dependency
            4. Environmentalists
         2. Water
            1. Danube is a major source of clean drinking water
            2. No clean drinking water means conflict
            3. conflict means world wars
            4. wetlands purify freshwater very efficiently
      2. Geopolitics
         1. European Union "Unity" is the ostensible motivation
         2. Bavarian Environmentalists argue against Danube deepening
         3. Dec. 19, 1984: Police Riot causes national park in wetlands (Austria)
         4. National Park means that the barges will have to ask the nation to do their dirty work.
         5. Communism
            1. Damming the natural wetlands of the Danube
         6. Chemical Dumping
            1. Budapest
            2. Belgrade
            3. Many other places
            4. Waste
            5. Industrial Waste
            6. Cultural Waste
            7. Municipal Waste
      3. Cultural Geography
         1. Environmentalists
            1. Sees the River as ecological unit
         2. EU Transport Bureaucrats
            1. Sees the river as vital commercial waterway
         3. EU Agricultural Subsidies
            1. huge phosphate and fertilizer problems
         4. Terms
            1. "Bottlenecks"
            2. Important Wetlands
         5. Organic Farmers
            1. makes the farmers sick
            2. not one single weed inside the non-organic way
3. Climactic Controls
   1. Solar Energy
   2. Latitude
   3. Global Wind Systems
   4. Global