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"Progress" and its Underlying Effects
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Human Evolution and Subsistence:
Not the Direction You Would Expect
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Foraging
- scavenging
- hunting and gathering
- seasonal scheduling
- gathering was actually more plentiful in most places
- Up until about 10 kya this was primary method
of human survival.
- Some evidence may exist that religion existed in H/G groups
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Agriculture
- Arose independently in a few odd places.
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Bioarchaeology shows a decrease in health since the advent of agriculture.
- less diverse diet
- less exercise
- more strain on the body
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"Disease of Development"
- Three ways "Progress" increases disease
- Increased rates of
diabetes, obesity,
and hypertension
- Disturbs environmental balances,
increases certain bacterial and
parasitic disease.
- When development is
withdrawn, poverty increases.
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Nutritional Change
- Imported Food
- associated with powerful outsiders, status symbol
- decreased dental health / Malnutrition
- Micronesia
- 1958 - 1972
- Population: doubled
- Heart Disease: tripled
- Mental Disorder increased 8-fold
- Hypertension and Nutritional deficiencies become issues
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Other Perspectives on Globalization:
Could It be Good Overall?
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Good Globalization
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core
- benefit recieved
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periphery
- benefit taken
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World is Flat by Friedman
- It's amazing, but world is flat is dumb wrong-headed metaphor
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Criticisms
- focus on Business and "flatness" is uncritical nonsense
- what about the people?
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In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg
- Cato Institute, 2003
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Film: Globalization is Good
- 2003
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What arguments does he use?
- all anti-globalization protestors are dangerous anarchists
- all countries used to be poor
- egomanical focus on himself
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Taiwan
- 30 years ago, Taiwan was poor
- Today, it's GDP is equal to Spain.
- Real Wages up 10x higher
- "This only happened because of global capitalism's embrace"
- Comparison to African Countries
- African Countries have little infrastructure
- African Countries actually have natural resources
- Taiwan has no natural resources.
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Laws necessary
- Land Capitalization
- Liberalize land use
- But Taiwan artificially bought the land from the Aristocracy
- The State encouraged the creation of factories
- Government Zoning decide where factories are.
- Rural Rags to Riches
- What about the workers in the factory?
- Early factories were sweat shops!
- only early factories
- not anymore clearly
- Sweat shops are necessary.
- Encouraging Innovation
- Computers and Microchips
- Created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department Research
- Regulation
- Deregulation provides the ideal environment for innovation
- "Reasonable" as said by the Taiwanese and then Johan takes it to the farthest it could be.
- Draw huge conclusions from small truths
- Education
- Universities is funded by the State
- Clearly, factory jobs mean that parents can educate their children.
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Democracy is a side effect of Globalization
- Cote D'Ivoire
- Tanzania is deep in debt.
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Human Evolution Timeline
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Pre-Australopithecines
- Very Ape-like
- 6-7 mya
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Australopithicines
- More gracile than Pre
- 4 mya
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Homo Habilius
- 2 mya
- huge brain compared to Australo...
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Homo Erectus
- 2 mya
- huger brain than Habilius
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Archaic Homo Sapiens
- 350 kya
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Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens
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150 kya
- in the neighborhood