Lesson 18: Hydropower on the Amazon

April 3, 2025

Review:

• Mining in South America
• Columbia on Tue

Presentation:

• Natural Resource Extraction in South America
  • Historical Theme
    • Resource Extraction
    • Conquistadors to Chevron
  • Damming, Drilling and Mining
  • Negative impacts on indigenous communities and natural environment

• Economy of Brazil
  • In “BRICS”, B=Brazil
  • Brazil GDP
  • President Jair Bolsonaro (BBC)
• Amazon Rainforest
  • Wildfires in 2019 (USA Today)
  • Hydropower
    • Hydropower Basics (energy.gov)
    • Belo Monte Dam
    • Vale Mining Dam Collapse (NYTimes)
• Watch Damocracy (start at 9:15, end at 27:30)
  • Ilusu Dam (Turkey)

Assignment:

• Watch the rest of Damocracy 
• Questions about Columbia for Tue