El Alto, Bolivia is a case example of the impact of glacier melt on a particular area.
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Watch this video on glaciers and climate change and think about these questions. What does this tell us about the uneven distribution of CO2 emissions? How can we think about global warming and climate change as a result of industrialization? Whose responsible for taking up so much atmospheric space? How will countries like Bolivia be the first to deal with these issues?
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Watch this video on water from glaciers and think about these questions. What responsibility do nation-states in the global North have to provide assistance to places like Bolivia? People in the film say that this is the end of the world. In what ways do you see political economy intersecting with climate change? And how is climate change affecting people’s water supply? People are forced to find water everywhere and anywhere. How, then, can we think about health inequities as a result of all of this?
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