The Political Ecology of Global Environmental Change
The conquest and colonization of other ecological zones allowed the European powers to exceed the carrying capacity of their local ecologies, as was shown in the trade in guano to replenish the European soils (Foster et al., 2010). The utilization of non-renewable hydrocarbon energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, through the access to the p…
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