POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Keystone Pipeline, Rachel Carson, Greenhouse Gas
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2 aspects of the process of environmental degradation -- ability of environment to sustain itself are being eroded this concern created environmentalism. Reform environmental perspective -- argues that sustainability can be achieved through appropriate measures that are managed appropriately by the state. Social ecology + eco feminist - argue that environmental degradation has to be understood in connection with social structures and prespectives coming out notion of domination and subordination. Environmentalism has linked up with different ideological perspectives to argue for social structural change. Main forms of ideologies, key and welfare state are a form of reform liberalism a resultthe idea that capitalism need to be managed. Keynesian welfare state -- major development in all of the advanced capitalist economies after. 1945: referred to now as -- global north. 2 major events: great depression of the 1930s, and world war 2.
