Transcript Chapter 32 Today’s Issues Southeast Asia, Oceania

Chapter 32
Today’s Issues
Southeast Asia, Oceania, &
Antarctica
Objective: Examine regional
issues of land claims,
industrialization, & global
warming, & the implications
for the world community
Chapter 32 Section 1
Aboriginal Land Claims
Vocabulary: Assimilation, Stolen
Generation, Land Rights Act of 1976,
Mabo Case, Pastoral Leases, & Wik
Case
Objective: Examine hoe Aboriginal
people lose their land & suffered from
forced assimilation
Aboriginal People Lose Land
• Aboriginal people didn’t farm or herd the
land but rather relied on hunting &
gathering
• British colonist believed that since the
Aboriginal people didn’t farm or build
on the land that they had no ties to it
• The Aboriginal people lost their land to the
colonist
• Australian government promoted
assimilation
• Assimilation called for the Aboriginal
people to give up their culture & adopt
the majorities culture
• Stolen Generation: 100,000 mixed-raced
children were given to white families to
promote assimilation
Land Claims
• Aboriginal people were
given full citizenship of
Australia
• Land Rights Act of
1976: gave Aboriginal
people the right to
claim land in the
Northern Territory of
Australia
Land Claims
• Mabo Case: recognized
the Aboriginal people
owned land before the
British arrived
• Pastoral Leases: allows
ranchers to rent the land
from the government
• Since the land is being
rented out the Aboriginal
have a hard time show their
ties to the land
• Wik Case: allowed
Aboriginals people to
claim land even under
pastoral leases
Chapter 32 Section 2
Industrialization Sparks Change
Vocabulary: Industrialization &
Push-Pull Factors
Objective: Identify reasons for
Southeast Asian urban growth &
examine its impact
Moving to Find Jobs
• Industrialization (growth of
industry) is huge in Southeast
Asia
• People move to the cities
because of push-pull factors
• Push factors push people out of their
homeland & pull factors pull them
to a new place
• Push Factors include lost resources,
scarcity of land, & population growth
• Pull Factors include industry & other
benefits
• However cities are now
overpopulated & polluted
Other Results of Industrialization
• Industry has given the region higher
incomes & an expanding middle
class
• However a high number still live in
poverty
• Industry can also damage the
environment with air pollution
& water pollution
• Cities need to promote their
industrial growth but find ways
to deal with the overpopulation
& environmental damage
Case Study
Global Environmental Change
Objective: Identify future effects of
environmental change & examine
international efforts to take action
Damage to the Environment
• CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) is a
greenhouse gas that traps the
suns heat
• Scientist fear the
atmosphere has too many
greenhouse gases & CO2
levels are increasing
causing the temperature
to rise
• Scientist discovered a hole in
the ozone layer above
Antarctica
Looking Toward the Future
• Some people predict that
global warming might
change patterns of
evaporation &
precipitation
• We could have violent storms
or droughts in certain regions
• They also worry that a
thinning ozone layer
might increase thing like
skin cancer, eye damage,
& drop damage
Taking Action
• 1992, UN held the
Earth Summit to
discuss ways to pursue
economic development
while protecting the
environment
• Kyoto Protocol, were
guidelines for developed
countries to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions