SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neoproterozoic, Deep Time, The Shock Doctrine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Reading: climate and culture: anthropology in the era of contemporary climate change (susan. What makes global warming unique in the four-billion-year history of the planet is that the causative agents humans are sentient . In the past two decades anthropology"s focus on climate and culture has evolved to include the dynamics of unprecedented contemporary climate change. The environmental and the social complexity of global climate change is daunting for most, if not all, of earth"s human population. Because of this inherent complexity, there is no silver bullet explanation or solution. It is only through an integration of knowledge, from local to global, and via collaboration and cooperation across geographic, stakeholder, and geopolitical/socioeconomic scales that we will be able to reach understandings and find ways forward. Silent spring, rachael carson"s cult classic, 1962. marine biologist. Recognized dangers of ddt (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), appalled at powerlessness of environment. Took on monsanto & others over bird deaths in cape cod.