The System Of Stuff
Extraction:
Definitions/ Examples:
Chop down trees and harvests metal as well as other materials.
Extraction
Problems:
- Trashes the enviorment by creating polution.
- Overharvesting which loses too much resources.
Mining
-Canadas mines provide minerals to build skycrapers, cars, Fossil Fuels, and electronics.
-Nickel, Diamond, and oil.
Primary
Everything having to do with natural resorces
Three factors of a successful country
- Social
- Economic
- Enviromental
Production:
Creates materials with bad effect on the enviroment
Production:
Has bad effects which gets factory workers in bad health as well as damaging the enviroment
Forestry
- Provides wood for construction: furnature, paper, and heat for homes.
Second
Processing raw natural resources. Manufactoring construction idustries.
GDP
Total value of goods produced, and services provided in a country in one year. It is tied to natural resorces, indistries, Canadian economy sectors.
Distribution:
Selling stuff that people buy which often ends up as garbage being sold for cheap. Made for consumption.
Distribution
Produces lots of garbage, Cheap stuff often comes from poor contries and 99% of items consumed in america is trashed within the first 6 months
Fishing and Farming
- Provides food for humans and animals.
- Both coasts and Alberta
- (Canada´s breadbasket)
Tertiary
A lot of diffirent stuff.
Commerce asministration, transport, real estate, business, education, health, social work.
Manufacturing
When people take raw materials or resources and make them into products.
Consumption
Made to be consmed and sell as much as possible. Convinces people to buy using selling tactics.
Consumption
Cheaply made and destined to fail using planned obsolecense, Designed to sell as much and maximise profits in any scenario
Water and Energy
- Provide support the basic needs for humans and society.
- Hydroelectricity
Quaternary
Industry based on human ideas. Technology, Information, planning, research, development.
Where is manufacturing done?
Manufacturing is often done oversees due to cost
Disposal
Get rid of products by selling them or trashing them. Which wastes more stuff.
Disposal
Wastes alot of products, burns fuels which create dioxide, trashes areas, too much waste to handle, difficult to recycle.
Types of resources
- Renewable: Resorces that can come back if used carefully.
- Non-Renewable: Resorces that are limited and cannot be replaced easily.
- Flow : Resources that are replaced naturally.
- Other: Resorces based on the Human experience and human emotions.
Free trade: Definition
When a gouverment does not restrict imports or exports by using tariffs
Tariffs
Added to products that are imported so that local products seem cheaper to buyers. The cost added to a product as a tariff is payed by the consumer and goes to the government as a type of tax.