INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Malleable Iron, General Motors, List Of Association Football Teams To Have Won Four Or More Trophies In One Season
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 7 - ENVR 400
Today’s lecture: making links
• Between the speed of economic growth and the speed of transport via roads
and pipelines
• Between roads, pipelines, and local democracy
• Between local democracy and divestment from fossil fuel
Plateau green alley program
• Stop through traffic
• Restores green space
• Reverses burden of proof
o Default was no green alley unless majority of residents in favor
o Now yes to green alley unless majority against
Plateau saillies de trottoir
• Slow and therefore reduce traffic
• Take away parking spaces
• Restore green space
Automobile regulations are good at creating conflict
• Youtube video: goofy in motor media (1950)
o When step into automobile: sense of power, aggressive, etc
o Of course I own the road, my taxes pay for them
o get off my road
Economic growth: All cost, no benefits
• Growth and environmental degradation correlated
• Economic growth → on a world wide basis, we have the economy growing at
3% a year, and ecosystem collapsing at 2% a year
The necessity of ending capitalist growth
• the landscape of climate change is riven by 2 interconnected by equally
important rifts, each of which follows a trajectory of its own: these are
capitalism and empire
• The crisis of climate change has been necessitate by energy consuming
models of society that capitalism has creates
Cars and capitalism
• Think of the result to the industrial world of putting upon the market a
product that doubles the malleable iron consumption, trumps the plate glass
production and quadruples the sue of rubber!
o General motors’ head of research
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Document Summary
Today"s lecture: making links: between the speed of economic growth and the speed of transport via roads and pipelines, between roads, pipelines, and local democracy, between local democracy and divestment from fossil fuel. Plateau green alley program: stop through traffic, restores green space, reverses burden of proof, default was no green alley unless majority of residents in favor, now yes to green alley unless majority against. Plateau saillies de trottoir: slow and therefore reduce traffic, take away parking spaces, restore green space. Automobile regulations are good at creating conflict: youtube video: goofy in motor media (1950, when step into automobile: sense of power, aggressive, etc, of course i own the road, my taxes pay for them, (cid:498)get off my road(cid:499) Economic growth: all cost, no benefits: growth and environmental degradation correlated, economic growth on a world wide basis, we have the economy growing at. 3% a year, and ecosystem collapsing at 2% a year.
