Ap Human Geography Chapter 10 Summary

Chapter 10 focuses on the environment and development. Many of the effects of development impact the environment greatly, and these negative externalities tend to fall on poor people who don’t have the resources to escape the conditions. The chapter opens with a quote from Nicholas Stern that reads, “The poorest developing countries will be hit earliest and hardest by climate change, even though they have contributed little to causing the problem.” I wanted to talk about this quote and what exactly it means because it’s an important fact that often goes overlooked.
As we’ve learned in class, many of the poorest regions live in areas with the worst climate conditions. Because of this, climate change has exacerbated these poor living conditions