WECC final Flashcards
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AWCS; RESHAPE: Buildings Designed for Life by Amanda Sturgeon. List the main idea and give examples
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- The root cause of the energy addiction is our separation from nature
- buildings that lack windows use hella AC to cool, buildings with buildings with little natural light use electricity to light, we send materials overseas instead of what nearby
- we need to connect to nature with our NEW built environment, bring the outside in
- indigenous homes used water evaporation to cool down
- “Biophilic design”: designing a built environment with a positive connection between people and nature
- buildings can evoke emotion
- we are naturally drawn to areas in restaurants that give us a view/have elements of nature
- one hour in nature a day has been shown to improve our memory/attention by 20%
- biophilic design is an underlying solution to climate change
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Understanding the linkages, give the main idea and key examples within
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- reproductive labor: all household tasks that have to be done over and over
- productive labor: work you get paid for
- the ecosphere and sociosphere interact
- ecofeminism: women connected to nature, men connected to dominance over nature and women
- a womens role as food providers is overlooked
- Although women may be “illiterate” they have a depth of knowledge in plants, many plants are edible/used in medicine
- rural women are the main producers of the worlds staple crops, in southeast asia they provide 90 percent of labor in rice cultivation
- women make up 51% of the total agricultural labor force
- in the himalayas, men work 1212 hrs; women work 3485 hrs on average
- in africa women work 467 minutes/day, men work 371 min/day
- women in india can name 145 species of plants compared to external forestry experts who could only name 24
- more dependant on foraging than hunting
- some women spend 20 hours a day of collecting water; 72 pounds of water;
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why are women more likely to die from climate change
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- men migrate to cities to find work
- WHEN COOKING OVER AN OPEN FIRE, often inside, breathing the smoke is equivalent to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Breathing smoke from cooking fires is the biggest killer of children under 5 in the world.
- women don’t have access to news
- men make the decisions
- women that live in rural households can’t leave children/older relatives
- women were not taught to swim, likely to drown
- women are more likely to collect water, food and firewood, and to cook meals
- Women eat last and least
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what is adaptation
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Accepting that CC is already here, trying to live with it. EX: Moving away from the coast. Norfolk, watch where you drive.
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what is mitigation
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trying to make things less bad. Renewable energy
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what is the sociosphere
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social network of people, nations, society, layers of organizations, layers of government that we create to create our space.
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what is the biosphere
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air, water, animals, plants
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what is the IPCC
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Intergovernmental panel on climate change. International organization that tries to get us to make a change. We do not have a government that can enforce global policies, so they make recommendations to the government
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“Black lives and climate justice courage and power in defending communities and mother earth” by MERSHA. main idea and examples
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- intersectionalism, linking climate justice with racial justice
- racism has made it easy to ignore the climate crisis
- Main idea: the global south has been affected most by climate change yet has contributed the least. Their resources have been exploited to benefit the global north. Grassroot organizations have been helpful.
- Nigeria: extractive industry, impacts on food production, access to clean water. people are 500X more likely to die from CC.
- Haiti: The drought caused 80% of crops to die. Hurricane Matthew brought cholera, and killed 90% of animals and homes. USAID sent Monsanto seeds, used in monocultures, depleted the soil. MPP: planted over 50 million trees
- Honduras: Hurricane mitch caused erosion and SLR. The black fraternal organization of honduras use land reclamation, legal strategies, and cultural resistance to defend their land and mother earth
- US: low income communities get hit the hardest; blacks are often criminalized and displaced from their homes, community control and stabilization is how we adapt to CC. Alternative for community and environment (ACE): fights for transit justice and environmental health.
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AWCS FEEL: mothering in an age of extinction. main idea and examples
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- Community mothering/parenting: caring for your own children as well as others. Caring for all children around the world is a form of environmental activism.
- How to talk to kids about global warming when you yourself are freaking out. How to communicate the situation is bad without drilling hopelessness in them.
- Stressing that being a climate activist is a sacrifice we must make for a guaranteed future.
- Mothers are a wasted resource, we can’t afford to waste anything
- Community mothers are the ones taking action to clean water, transit working, hold police accountable, and care for neighbors
- Black mothers’ work gets labeled as politically immature, they get placed “second” on the hierarchy of mothers
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AWCS FEEL: loving a vanishing world
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- We are facing a lot of species going extinct, without action now, we will lose many species
- It matters because we are the ones causing this extinction
- having some species is better than none
- EX: smell and color of oceans will change
- We need to take action now; we have the ability to save SOME individuals and species, it’s worth it.
- EX: seawater is acidifying
- EX: a single patch of ocean garage contains 2 trillion pieces of plastic
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Kimmerer: The honorable harvest
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- monoculture
- greeting the plants/leeks: why she has come, permission to harvest, ask if they are willing to share. this shows respect to the personhood of the plant
- comparing being a plant to being a mother, being needed
- how do we consume in a way that does justice to the lives we take?
- only take what is given. EX: the leeks had nothing to give so she planted them back. leaks are going extinct due to harvesters loving them to extinction/overharvesting
- our ancestors found ways to harvest that brought life-long benefits to plants and humans
- many indigenous stories about not overconsuming/overharvesting are hard to translate to English, hence why we have a problem
- Honorable Harvest: the indigenous principles
- only take what you need; our needs get tangled with our wants
- renewable energy! coal is not given to us. wind is.
- ploughed forests are missing their forest floor of plants other than trees
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VIDEO: feeling anxiety over climate change? Here’s what to do
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- Ecoanxiety/climate anxiety: anxiety felt due to climate change, spreading in the media. Chronic fear of environmental doom
- clinicians and psychologists are using new techniques for this issue
- traps us in a pit of fear, future will be written off
- not in the DSM-5
- different from regular anxiety via presenting its own symptoms in a feedback loop
- climate aware therapy can help with this loop
- build a climate crisis plan (focus on small aspects of what you can control)
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climate anxiety and affect theory slides
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- Sarah Jaquette; a field guide to climate anxiety
- fear isn’t just a response to a threat, it aligns our bodies with and against others
- emotions affect political realities
- affect theory isn’t interested in fixing people’s problems, it is interested in the role emotions play in cultural politics
- if emotions determine our actions more than reason then studying them isn’t about mental health, its about politics
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Generation Now
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- Greta Thunberg - youth climate activist
- Young people are being confronted with not having a future, sparking action. Will this anger go into action, will the people in charge do anything
- intergenerational justice
- its harder to dismiss younger kids
- kids are asking why buy a house, why start a family, why go to school
- being betrayed by those in power
- Vanessa Nakate - Ugandan youth climate activist: climate action is EXPENSIVE, the countries suffering can’t afford it
- both sides believe in climate change but don’t agree on how to go about solving it
- words are not lining up with action
