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Consumption as an Infrastructure Theme:

1.

Case Study: The Introduction of Genetically Modified Crops (GM-crops) against market desires

In this lecture, Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, summarizes the contents of his book, which explains how genetically modified foods cause health problems, and their potential for creating a vast array of unforeseen and surprising illnesses. He also sheds light on how the [raw material regime] corruption within the U.S. government, the FDA, and the GMO industry has allowed, and perpetuated, the cover-up.

59 min 57 sec
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2108022965800005689&hl=en

2.

Electronic Trash Village - China
The U.N. estimates that China imports 70% of electronic trash/waste of the entire world. The U.S. is the largest trash exporter of electronic waste. The film goes undercover in a city in southern China where approximately 250,000 people process the world's electronic trash--documenting the infrastructural flow to them as well as their health problems and the economic problems leading them into these jobs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHTWRYXy2gE (10:29)

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THE CORPORATION [17/23] Unsettling Accounts
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw

Week 11: Everyone Posts Comments to This Thread (by Sunday 11/18)

These are the short movies that I said I would post. We watched the ones in boldface already, on Monday.

1. The Convenient Solution
(The Economics of Abundant Renewables vs. Non-Required Unrenewables)
Greenpeace UK
9 min 27 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzVQwW_8Jk

2. 1983: Grüne zur Bundestagswahl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cG6iqaZmjI

3. 1990: Grüne zur Bundestagswahl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QXxafLyKM

4. environment protect xiamen PX China (1 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSjNK1Q4iiA

5. Water Crisis, Wuxi, China 无锡水祸(4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9YJXm1kqk4

6. Amazon dries up [3 min.] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gpAy4ivZ0

7. Shocking images from Amazon jungle [4 min.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqk_sre54WA

8. Tibet is melting and turning into desert
Greenpeace; 4 min 36 sec - Aug 8, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8600404118213144512

9. Yellow Earth – China [12 min] - Sep 6, 2007 Encroaching desert prompted the Chinese government to re-settle nearly one million people. Ironically they move from old desert homes to new desert homes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YLx0VcrwI

10. North Pole Ice Cracking
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times
1 min 17 sec - May 23, 2006
The sea ice at the North Pole is only a few feet thick. It floats on an ocean that is 14,000 feet deep. And it's cracking under our feet….Everything you hear -- all the chugging and huffing and banging -- is the ice beneath us.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=846342022276396533

11. Global Climate Change (Part 1) [9 min]
9 min - Sep 3, 2006 - (161 ratings)
Segment from the ABC 20/20 Special, "Last Days on Earth", about global climate change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zk4-JPCdg

12. Global Climate Change (Part 2) [9 min]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClNHfmFDog

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