IDST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Market Distortion, Winona Laduke, Environmental Racism
5 Apr 2016
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Earlier societies thought in terms of nature". With capitalism and modern science, nature came to be viewed as merely providing resources for human use. The environment = nature and the biophysical conditions of human existence. Encompasses everything, not just wilderness areas (sea, biosphere, urban lands) Ecology (oikos+logos) = studies the relationship between and organism and its environment. * looking at the biophysical limits of rapid economic growth. Became an object of citizen concern (began to think of environment as a collective good; a shared responsibility) There are many more of us inhabiting more of the earth. We have technologies that can do much greater damage and much quicker. We have an economic system that has no bounds. There is an unprecedented public awareness of the issue. Climate: the regular range of highs and lows of temperatures and precipitation in a region. Significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions are all associated with wealth, not poverty.
