Local to Global

Scale: From Local to Global

Today in class we took notes and started talking about the world's oil supply. We use so much oil in the United States that it'll soon be gone because of the rate we are using it. We also talked about how oil makes up a ton of stuff in the world. We use oil for gas to start cars, plastic, basically everything. It's very important in our world.

Notes:

- geographers think about scale at many levels, from local to global. At a local scale, such as an urban neighborhood, geographers tend to see unique features. At the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns.
- "Think global, act local" meaning that the environment was being harmed by processes such as global warming that were global in scale, but it could be improved by actions, such as consuming less gasoline, that were local in scale.