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@ccstein said: @charlotte I agree with you on that unfortunate truth, and that is really what I meant by using the term "inflection point", does it take twisted policies physically harming the elites for action to be taken? While marginalized …
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@fionaw said: @cara said: Unfortunately, this is a common misconception in the Anthropological field, particular when someone's interpretation is from an "etic" perspective rather than an "emic" one. By "etic" I mean when the obser…
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@caroline22 said: @Madison said: @fionaw said: Something this discussion makes me think about is who are the activists that are fighting for each cause. General environmental protests are really popular. The activ…
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@ccstein said: @joshua said: @caroline22 said: @joshua said: @caroline22 Haha, I actually think "give a fishing rod, not just a fish" leaves out the fact that indigenous people know how to …
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@ccstein said: I do really think this is important. I can't quite remember which article it was but it talked about indigenous people who have lived on the land for decades are beginning to transition to ranching (sometimes illegally) i…
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I wish these stories has felt more surprising. Even though the exact context was different (I'm embarrassed to say I had never heard of Chico Mendes before these readings), the extent to which governments are willing to go to protect profit, the nat…
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@fionaw said: @slothman said: It's hard for me to imagine a completely different way of life, but something that I really like and potentially could see being implemented has a lot to do with this idea of short circuits, specifical…
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I really loved the Buen Vivir article. I think given the state of the world today, it can be hard to imagine the future you want, like people were saying in class, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But there's s…
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@ccstein said: @charlotte said: @Julieta said: I find this topic so complex and hard to be 100% sure of an answer to your questions. Part of me agrees with the earlier comments on how it is a step into the right d…
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@Julieta said: @cara said: @caroline22 said: For one of my readings, I read about deforestation in Ecuador. Bates dispels a couple myths about deforestation in Ecuador, one of which I found particularly interestin…
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@Julieta said: I find this topic so complex and hard to be 100% sure of an answer to your questions. Part of me agrees with the earlier comments on how it is a step into the right direction, but I also find it that it is a way to create inacti…
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Yeah I also feel like the total cap on emissions makes sense. I guess I struggle with programs like the cap-and-trade because compensating countries which already are seeing the worst effects of environmental degradation in order to pollute more fee…
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I read Piper's article about the "water market" in Chile. Essentially during the Pinochet regime, all water rights became privatized, allowing for water to essentially be treated like property. The Italian company bought a huge amount of the rights …
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@ccstein I kind of want to go off topic for this fun extra comment and talk about what you're saying in response to @SpencerFier about the "environmental utopia." So much in political discourse (or even just online forums like these) questions of fe…
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There's a big part of me that wants to answer this question with saying that engagement in how to go about this kind of resource extraction shouldn't be an engagement that's taking place at all but I understand we're past that point. As others have …
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@Madison said: It was really fascinating to read about how oil and gas companies divide indigenous groups into those that oppose and those the see benefit in exploiting their lands. I do think that it's important for all groups to be consult…
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@Julieta said: @cara said: In “The Shady Side of Consultation and Compensation: ‘Divide-and-Rule,’ the authors explain consultation and compensation have been used as a strategy to inform indigenous communities but have often been …
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@Madison said: @caroline22 said: @Madison said: I found the reading very interesting regarding the problems of development and the United States influence on Latin America. I thought the documentary portrayed a re…
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This makes me think of other instances of U.S. involvement. In Guatemala, the U.S. hired Edward Bernays to consult on how to make citizens believe that the Guatemalan government was communist. In the midst of the red scare, preying on the already qu…
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@Julieta said: I found the intro and first chapter of Inside the Champion simply amazing, the writer does a really good job of explaining how a lot of the Latin American mindset works (such as with the “and now it’s our turn” feelin) regarding…
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@SpencerFier said: The issue of violating Indigenous land rights in order to build petrochemical pipelines is most certainly an issue of environmental justice. The difference between the legal issues surrounding Canadian and American cases ill…
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@Madison said: The issue I am focusing on is the Salton Sea which can definitely be framed as an environmental justice issue. The Sea is the result of break in a dike that diverted the Colorado River for agricultural purpose in the Imperial Va…
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Definitely the environmental issue I'm talking about - nuclear waste sites on reservation land is an EJ issue. This definitely ties into what Dowie described as the more anti-toxics wave of environmentalism, where the actual effects of environmental…
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@slothman said: While I do think it is dangerous for large companies to control green reform I do think that it has the potential to be effective. Although we have seen these large corporations using 'green economics' take a greedy approach wh…
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@charlotte said: I personally don't see a lot of value in time/money spent on damaging the reputations of the big NGOs. However, I really see a ton of value in their role in the environmental movement going forward either. I think that the "co…
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@fionaw said: @SpencerFier said: I see the inspiration that you pointed out as trickery at best and brainwashing at worse. I remember myself, my friends, and my classmates honestly caring about the plight of our planet and wanting to do…
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@cara said: @charlotte said: I personally don't see a lot of value in time/money spent on damaging the reputations of the big NGOs. However, I really see a ton of value in their role in the environmental movement going forward eith…
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I personally don't see a lot of value in time/money spent on damaging the reputations of the big NGOs. However, I really see a ton of value in their role in the environmental movement going forward either. I think that the "constituency" of these NG…
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@Madison said: @slothman said: @cara said: Enviromental injustices and human rights abuses have often been justified by the argument of it being a direct result of human nature. While I don’t think humans are inhe…
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@SpencerFier said: The important role of miseducation detailed in the oatmeal and Mann cannot be understated. It seems to me that the myth of a dichotomy of sustainable Indigenous living on this continent only being able to garner subsistence …