hist.g8.s.cul.globalization_internet_climate_change_preview
Preview 21st-century globalization + Internet + climate change for high school: 1991-present global transformations
Trace post-Cold War transformations (preview for high school): GLOBALIZATION — NAFTA Jan 1 1994 + WTO Jan 1 1995 + EU enlargement + China WTO accession 2001 + 2008 Global Financial Crisis; INTERNET — ARPANET 1969 + Tim Berners-Lee WWW 1989 + Mosaic 1993 + Google 1998 + iPhone June 29 2007 + Facebook 2004 + Twitter 2006 + TikTok 2016 + social media + misinformation + digital divide + AI Large Language Models 2022+; 9/11 Sept 11 2001 + Patriot Act + Afghanistan 2001-21 + Iraq 2003-11 + Guantanamo 2002+; Arab Spring 2010-11; Occupy 2011; BLM 2013+; #MeToo 2017; Standing Rock 2016-17; CLIMATE — Keeling Curve Mauna Loa 1958+ + IPCC formed 1988 + UNFCCC 1992 Rio + Kyoto Protocol Dec 11 1997 + Paris Accord Dec 12 2015 195 signatories + Greta Thunberg 2018 climate strikes Skolstrejk för klimatet + IPCC AR6 2021-23 + Sunrise Movement + Indigenous climate leadership + COVID-19 Jan-March 2020+ ~7M deaths globally per WHO 2024; refused: techno-optimism + climate denial + 'history has ended' (Fukuyama 1992 critique).
No declared successors.
- Treating globalization as solely economic — also cultural, political, environmental + linked to colonial / postcolonial economic structures
- Treating Internet as neutral — also surveillance + misinformation + algorithmic bias + digital divide + content moderation politics
- Treating climate change as future — already producing measurable effects per IPCC AR6 2021-23; intergenerational justice frame