Right from the start the author is stressing the importance of resources and their amounts and ease of extraction constrain what kinds of technologies can produce what kinds of commodities at what kinds of prices (pg. 33). He shows that there are two types of civilizations at play in the Amazon’s situation. One civilization, being the indigenous people of the Amazon, learned to work and coexist with the ecosystem surrounding them. The other type of civilization is a society that extracts an ecosystem’s resources and ships them around the world for commercial purposes. It was interesting to see what happened to the Amazon over the 400 years that the author covered. Market leadership was passed between many societies. It is apparent that whoever had the leading innovations or technology at the moment lead the market. First to dominate the Amazon was the Portuguese who were the first to bring its resources to the world market and create a demand for such things as turtle oil. When......

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Title: Pom Perspective Of Globalization And The Race For Resources
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