GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Racism, Environmental Policy, Racialization
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Ggrb21: lecture 5 race" environments and environmental justice. Everything is related nothing stands alone on the earth. Social difference differences in gender, age, race, class. Celebrating raising awareness to social issues. Midterm & exam: race & environmental justice. Production of nature: nature as we commonly know it does not exist but rather is socially produced: humans touch and effect nature, creating = producing, because we are adapting something, labour main factor of production. Production of nature deals with changing, we can do things to nature to meet our food goals (i. e. , new tools and new fertilizations) Only white people are shown in the video but in africa, you would expect to see black people. Animals running around, lions not eating anyone. Image doesn"t exist it is not realistic. Race" is a socially constructed category, which is to say there is nothing natural about race" it has been created and deployed by humans.
