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@Julieta said: I feel like that is such an intresting point. When doing a lot of the readings, even within elites there was a difference between the elites that dependend in the natural resources and needed them to be productive for a longer …
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@cara said: I feel similarly - While the criminal activity is not a surprise to me, reading about criminal violence against environmental defenders is shocking. I think at the core of my surprise is just how blatant the violence is. Its shocki…
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I think one of the best things moving forward for indigenous land rights would be for some sort of organization, ideally grassroots, to take on a larger roll of protecting these people. It's sad but indigenous people are often not respected/ are rac…
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I agree that consent of an indigenous group is an important tool but I don't see it as a guarantee for protection. I think that with the way extractive practices and the treatment of indigenous people are today it can be assumed in a lot of cases th…
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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 activists in Latin America that we read about seem to way more frequently be fighting fo…
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It seems like so many of today's issues have ties to colonialism that aren't well know. I have taken a lot of classes that addressed colonialism or were specifically about it but I never really processed how much of an impact it had on the environme…
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I think that colonialism and imperialism can definitely be to blame for most of our environmental problems today. This class has made me think a lot more about the roles that environmental organizations should play. I think a successful environmenta…
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The article I found the most interesting was the Second Death of Chico Mendes. I knew that indigenous and rural people often work for extractive industries for financial reasons but I never considered the impact that these industries have on the eco…
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This isn't new information to me but every time I read about it I am always shocked and upset. I think the next steps are tracking down those accountable for the murders and making it way more present in the news that these are happening. This would…
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@caroline22 said: One thing that stuck out to me in The Burning Season was the American filmmaker. I wondered why he was not more afraid, and getting threats himself. I would think if anything him being American would make him more of a target…
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I'm pretty pessimistic when it comes to the environment and the future and I really don't see major change happening any time soon. I used to believe that once greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation reached a certain point people would have to s…
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@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, specifically food production/consump…
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@Julieta said: I still believe that its community and movement is compeltely different and I can not talk for all of them (or any really), but as far as my knowledge gets, I just also wanted to show that side of the movement and the critical r…
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@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 observer is not apart of the so…
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I also read Piper's article and on privatization of water in Chile. I chose this article because I've studied privatized water in Kibera, a slum of Nairobi, vastly. This was a very similar case to that in Kibera and I was disappointed. I think priva…
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@a_hipp said: I am with you on the prediction that we will be stuck in the cap and trade system for a while, and I also cannot offer a solution or catalyst for putting a cap in place. One argument that I think companies would use if we were …
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I definitely see wealthy organizations as a sort of elite class themselves. Organizations like WWF are very wealthy and have so much control. WWF has a good hold over their reputation despite doing terrible things, especially as they can pay for ads…
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I think social movements that operate with no outside funding can be one of the most impact actions. People involved in these social movements are donating their own time, resources, and money which when made clear really shows their passion and can…
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Funding plays such a huge role in environmental organizations and the most funded organizations are often the most well known and sometimes the most corrupt. I think an effective organization should get its money from donations from people and organ…
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Obviously a carbon cap is ideal but I don't really see it happening any time soon for a few reasons. One large reason being the hold large corporations have over policies in the US. Another reason I don't see it happening soon is the lack of motivat…
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I am torn on green economy efforts. I think that combining economic and environmental benefits are necessary at times to get corporations on board with environmental progress but I agree with @Julieta that it tends to create inaction. I think the fa…
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@joshua said: 12 point double spaced. All else is your choice. Is there a 10 page limit on the paper or 10 pages minimum?
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@Julieta said: I agree with you. It is and should be at least a prerequisite, regardless of what they do with it later. Even if I believe that these communities should have full autonomy over their land, within the current situation, I find …
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We've seen a lot of films and read a lot of journal articles in this class already about specific protests and environmental issues that I didn't know a lot about before and it has made me think a lot about why. I think the US government having a la…
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@cara said: I really loved Alimonda's chapter of Inside a Champion. I was wondering when the dependency theory would make an official appearance in our readings and curb the narrative around "developed/underdeveloped." The dependency theory is…
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@a_hipp said: This is an excellent point about equity and the power dynamics of the extraction industry. The film When Two Worlds Collide also made me think again about intersectionality. When the Amazonian men were protesting at Station 6 f…
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@slothman said: @fionaw said: One of the organizations I am looking into is very successful and I think a large part of that is being started, funded, and run by local people. The organization is reforesting to restore the jungle o…
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One of the organizations I am looking into is very successful and I think a large part of that is being started, funded, and run by local people. The organization is reforesting to restore the jungle on a mountain which is bringing water back to the…
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Water access and pollution in Nicaragua can absolutely be framed in terms of environmental justice. (I haven't had a chance to narrow my topic yet- just finished my thesis) Poorer people have less access to clean water despite it sometimes being ava…
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@caroline22 said: Do you think it's actually possible that they will ever be shamed out of existence? I feel like we are learning about these horrors, but we are a minority. We've elected to take an environmental anthropology class as a grea…