GGR223H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Ecology, Sustainable Energy, Integrated Geography
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Focus on broader issues instead of localized issues. A political ecologist would look at the chemical products industry and how advertisement, pressure, or sway are influencing people; instead of just concluding that local forces like looking good for your neighbors are driving lawn maintenance. Part of environmental projects are part normative and part objective; acknowledge normativity. Acknowledge and accept your normative motivation just as you would accept the objective element. The environmental problem or issue of the lawn" involve several players like governance, manufacturers, social nature, and political economy. In the euro-american tradition of nature we tend to think about nature as sublime versus nature as resource. Nature as resource if we are conserving it, it is for future use. Nature as sublime beyond human comprehension, not part of culture. In looking at national geographic images (fort mcmurray) we see a binary nature as sublime and nature as a resource.
