GEOS2121 Study Guide - Final Guide: Planetary Boundaries, Wild Africa, Unintended Consequences
29 Nov 2018
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Week 2-5 module 1: key concepts in environment and resource management. Week 6-10 module 2: managing carbon and climate change. Module 3: alternative practices for saving the world. Unintended consequences (on the natural world) behind our social structure and philosophy. Political formations to save ecologies, humans and the world. Relationship between human and nature (contested concept in itself as well: humanity (social) vs. biophysical world. Unintended consequences of our social structures and ways of thinking (philosophy) on the biophysical world. Contrasts the way of thinking in planetary boundaries. We should not preserve human flourishing in the current state because it reinforces existing status quo. Rather, we should allow social, economic and political formation to continue adjusting and create new democratic, just social systems. Criticises the power relations behind planetary boundaries (arbitrary thresholds determined by a group of scientists) Apolitical: population growth (overshoots food supply) and shortage of agricultural technology cause famine.
