INDG 401 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 - ENVR 400
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 10 - ENVR 400
Small is necessary
today lectures: making links
• Between truth and democracy
• Between local democracy and the environment
• Between our environmentally disastrous present course and a much better
future
Weighting vote:
• Democratic: each vote is equal
• Technocratic vote: virtue and intelligence
• Plutocratic: weight and vote by wealth
• He argues that democratic option is fairer and leads to better decisions
The epistemological superiority of democracy
• Democratic norms of free discourse, dissent, feedback and accountability
function to ensure collective, experimentally based learning from the diverse
experiences of different knowers - Anderson
• Democracy would be preferable to oligarchy on epistemic ground even if one
could identify in advance the smartest and most virtuous individuals in a
given population
o Better to give an equal vote, democracy allows the greater diversity of
inputs → better thought out decisions
US as a democracy?
• Trump did not win a majority vote
• America didn’t have a good choice neo-liberalism of Clinton against racist
alternative provided by trump
• Seems to be some evidence that the ruling class may have prevented Bernie
Sanders from winning
• IS IT A DEMOCRACY THOUGH?
o Electoral system..
When people are presented with genuine alternatives, they pick the better one (has
environmental implications)
Democracy is not perfect → it is just better than the alternatives (between
democracy and plutocracy)
In addition to more democracy in the power, also more devaluation of power
(power to the local level)
Tobacco lobbyist and smoking caused cancer victim Victor Crawford
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Document Summary
Small is necessary today lectures: making links: between truth and democracy, between local democracy and the environment, between our environmentally disastrous present course and a much better future. Weighting vote: democratic: each vote is equal, technocratic vote: virtue and intelligence, plutocratic: weight and vote by wealth, he argues that democratic option is fairer and leads to better decisions. Is it a democracy though: electoral system When people are presented with genuine alternatives, they pick the better one (has environmental implications) Democracy is not perfect it is just better than the alternatives (between democracy and plutocracy) In addition to more democracy in the power, also more devaluation of power (power to the local level) And that is why all your anti-smoking legislation without exception has started at the local level, all across the country. Even the states are just starting o act.
