Chapter 2 Flashcards
(18 cards)
The use of US public lands -logging has been ? - -Trump administration wants to ? -a significant amount of controversy has surrounded ?
national forests, BLM land, national parks
-reduced (not eliminated) since the 70s
-reverse this
use of land in Alaska (arctic national wildlife refuge)
Tongass
- worlds ?
- largest?
- ?
- largest temperate rainforest
- US forest
- … for 8% of worldwide emissions
These kinds of arguments are happening ?
-amazon forest fires are not ?
internationally
- fires in amazon
- naturally occurring. They are to make room for different industry goals : meat consumption
Organizations and movements form around a ?
discourse is a ?
the maintenance and change of symbolic discourse is the locus of?
discourse
philosophy
political struggle
dominant versus subjugated discourse
political struggles in the form of social movements can be seen as attempts to ?
dominant: capitalist perspective
- alter social structures through the promotion of an alternative discourse
Conservationism
- what was the first environmental organization ?
- what did it support
American forestry association
-rational development of resources for human use
ecocentrism: -what linked with what -we are part of environment so ? -pops up in? human wellbeing relies on
- human health/environmental health
- so we need to protect it
- 50s and 60s
- ecosystem wellbeing
Political ecology: - -hierarchy begets ? -environmental ? -example
- $$$$$$
- DOMINATION (humans dominating humans leads to humans dominating the environment)
- racism/justice
- KAFOS farms located in places where there is disproportionate number of pooer people/minorities
Ecofeminism
absorbed into?
the way men dominate women is the way people dominate nature
-political ecology
Deep Ecology
- ?
- defend the rights of all ?
- more along the idea that we are going to ?
- example of a group
- instrinsic value, our relationship with nature hurts it
- non-human beings to a natural existence
- go out there and we are going to protect it (people chaining themselves to a tree)
- sea shepherds
Organizations developed in one of three periods
1875-1960s -conservation and preservation 1960-1970 -ecocentrism 70s to now: -political ecology -deep ecology
1960s came changes
- growing conerns ?
- what book written by who ?
- about what?
- one of the first to
- regarding the environment
- rachel carson’s silent spring (1962)
- DDT pesticide use
- challenge businesses impact on nature
1968 ?
earthrise photo
- never seen earth before
- struck by blue marble
Cuyahoga river fire
- ignited multiple times but in 1969?
- real image shown was taken in ?
- incredibly?
images spread through time magazine
- 1952
- polluted and tons of oil on the river
what oil spill in 1969 ? First Earth day was when ? -what two things founded -largely fueled by ? -who signed these ? environment did not used to be a ?
santa barabara -april 22, 1970 EPA, Clean Air Act pnixon -political issue
these reflected which environmental discourse ?
ecocentrism
now: ?
anthropogenic behaviors have increased global temps by ?
-how much expected by 2030
-forests ?
climate change
1C
1.5
significant climate change issue
sustainability
the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations