Chapter 2 Flashcards

(18 cards)

1
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The use of US public lands 
-logging has been ?
-
-Trump administration wants to ?
-a significant amount of controversy has surrounded ?
A

national forests, BLM land, national parks
-reduced (not eliminated) since the 70s
-reverse this
use of land in Alaska (arctic national wildlife refuge)

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Tongass

  • worlds ?
  • largest?
  • ?
A
  • largest temperate rainforest
  • US forest
  • … for 8% of worldwide emissions
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3
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These kinds of arguments are happening ?

-amazon forest fires are not ?

A

internationally

  • fires in amazon
  • naturally occurring. They are to make room for different industry goals : meat consumption
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4
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Organizations and movements form around a ?
discourse is a ?
the maintenance and change of symbolic discourse is the locus of?

A

discourse
philosophy
political struggle

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5
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dominant versus subjugated discourse

political struggles in the form of social movements can be seen as attempts to ?

A

dominant: capitalist perspective

- alter social structures through the promotion of an alternative discourse

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6
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Conservationism

  • what was the first environmental organization ?
  • what did it support
A

American forestry association

-rational development of resources for human use

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ecocentrism:
-what linked with what 
-we are part of environment so ? 
-pops up in?
human wellbeing relies on
A
  • human health/environmental health
  • so we need to protect it
  • 50s and 60s
  • ecosystem wellbeing
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Political ecology:
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-hierarchy begets ? 
-environmental ?
-example
A
  • $$$$$$
  • 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
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9
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Ecofeminism

absorbed into?

A

the way men dominate women is the way people dominate nature
-political ecology

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10
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Deep Ecology

  • ?
  • defend the rights of all ?
  • more along the idea that we are going to ?
  • example of a group
A
  • 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
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11
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Organizations developed in one of three periods

A
1875-1960s
-conservation and preservation 
1960-1970
-ecocentrism 
70s to now:
-political ecology 
-deep ecology
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1960s came changes

  • growing conerns ?
  • what book written by who ?
  • about what?
  • one of the first to
A
  • regarding the environment
  • rachel carson’s silent spring (1962)
  • DDT pesticide use
  • challenge businesses impact on nature
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13
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1968 ?

A

earthrise photo

  • never seen earth before
  • struck by blue marble
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Cuyahoga river fire

  • ignited multiple times but in 1969?
  • real image shown was taken in ?
  • incredibly?
A

images spread through time magazine

  • 1952
  • polluted and tons of oil on the river
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15
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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 ?
A
santa barabara 
-april 22, 1970 
EPA, Clean Air Act
pnixon 
-political issue
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16
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these reflected which environmental discourse ?

17
Q

now: ?
anthropogenic behaviors have increased global temps by ?
-how much expected by 2030
-forests ?

A

climate change
1C
1.5
significant climate change issue

18
Q

sustainability

A

the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations