Economic Geography
How different are your “needs” from your “wants”? This is a good question to consider as we move into a unit that is devoted to our natural resources and the industries that utilize them. It may sound cliché, but we cannot survive without clean water and food. We cannot enjoy our Canadian lifestyle without vast energy resources. Many of our resources are not renewable; once we use them they are gone for the foreseeable future. It is also true that our resources are one of the most powerful ways we are connected to other parts of the world, either by buying consumer goods or by selling raw natural resources.