Why Does Urry Mean by 'Global Fluids

question 41

Multiple Choice

Why does Urry mean by 'global fluids'?

• A) He is disturbed by oceanic waste.
• B) He suggests that we understand the globalization of capitalism as an unstoppable, liquid flow of money across borders.
• C) He is concerned by the ever-increasing flow of polluting gases across the global atmosphere.
• D) He suggests that we think of people, ideas and materials as streaming across the planet and connecting localities and bodies across the globe.

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