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World On Edge PART 4| 1hr : 06mins
Director: IKE KARNICK | Producer: IKE KARNICK
Focus Years: 2012 | Country: United States
Subject Tags: americas, economies, energy, environment, global, resources, sustainability, united states
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
A university of Illinois study, recently released found particulate matter an extremely dangerous factor in exacerbating climate change. It was likened to be in excess of methane as a heat trapping greenhouse gas. Methane has 25 times the power of CO2. The wood and charcoal fires to cook food in the third world is highlighted by these recent finding. The wonderful romantic fires that set the stage for romantic illusion in the west bring home the fact that other ways will have to be found to accomplish those cultural necessities. The way we look at the cultural determinism must be discussed in the classroom to new generation if we should be able to intercede and stop global climate change. The way we have lived in the west, and how women have been assigned rolls that directly effect human survival are important issues now being discussed and taught by women trying to break the cultural determinism being given to women. Micro-finance founded in Bangladesh by Muhammad Yunis is important. Women are kept in slavery by cultural determinism and finance. In Angola a program titled KIXICREDITO gives women a small amount of money at virtually zero interest to begin their own business. In the “informal market” they sell on the streets and so build the small initial investment as little as twenty-five dollars into a business that keeps the family unit going headed by women the backbone of a stable family. In Angola this is the beginning of breaking cultural determinism and giving women control of their lives If we look at the developing world and entrenched cultural determinism, it lets takes a women ten hours of backbreaking work to pound manioc-root to powder. A device that looked like an exercise bicycle developed in Gaviotas in Columbia, would reduce the job to an hour, by having a women ride it to pound the flour. However, riding a bicycle is not a women’s job since damage to a women’s genitals is the reasoning and the device unused. The women complained that relations with their children were affected since they washed the palm leaves the old ways gave children interaction with their mother. In terms of invention in the developing world, which weigh directly on the survival of the entire globe and the climate change issue, lets look at solar generation of power. The third world often depends on a diesel generation for power and requires fossil fuels. A concrete pad and a supply of gasoline are sufficient and do not require engineering knowledge to keep going. When one uses a complicated solar generation system it requires A knowledge of a solar voltaic system is necessary A person must be schooled in its use and once taught to a village the people are self sufficient. Unlike the grid system, future storms will render this system inoperable and must be supplanted. We have changed the climate putting the grid systems, transmission lines controlled by the state in jeopardy and the population at risk. We need only look at hurricane Sandy that impacted the east coast, people with service for months. The issues of climate change in the developing world cannot always be solved with medium-tech invention; repair to the system is not easily accomplished in places that lack roads or infrastructure and climate disruptions like rainy seasons. Since one must call an expert, immediate repair is often lacking, leaving the system unused. When a system fails and the power is down in rural areas you call the state. Invention to reduce carbon emissions is not always solved by installation without education. The careful understanding of cultural development determining how people live and why they do the things they do. If we thought about changing dung food fires in India for biogas conversion to methane, the dung fires are direct using gas requires twice as much effort by changing dung to slurry and then capturing the methane release. Also the food does not have the taste that people have come to expect. The human animal is a complex creature with defined needs and wants based on its cultural development. When we interfere with tradition other problems arise. We will require a new understanding a direction to grapple with the changes that are going to be required rapidly. Content quotes for scripts: With drought plaguing corn fields, prices for the scarce grain have skyrocketed, a fact that has been harshly felt by many cattle farmers, who are now unable to afford the corn for feed. But from the light tone of the Reuters article that says these are "Sweet times for cows as gummy worms replace costly corn feed" and that cows may get "a little chocolate" a reader might think this is a good situation for cows and farmers, and not realize it's an effect of a failing food system that, as one organic farmer notes, "treats animals as machinery," highlights the pervasiveness of genetically modified, and the distance most people have between themselves and the food they consume.

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