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@caroline22 said: @slothman said: @Madison 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 b…
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@charlotte Your citing of the idea that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism really resonated with me. I agree that it's really important to conceptualize different ways of living and, like the GND envisions, not j…
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@charlotte said: @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 comm…
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@ccstein said: I think I have a similar mindset about this issue to many of my classmates, while the green economy ideals seem to be a step in the right direction they have been executed in such a way that makes me sick. As the system operates…
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@caroline22 said: I think the green economy efforts are a step in the right direction. This is because of the general integration between economic and environmental benefit, which I believe is a necessary combination to get big organizations/c…
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While it is obvious from today's sources that the current system of carbon credits is repressive, abusive, and does little to nothing to reduce overall emissions, I am not at all opposed to market solutions to combat the climate crisis. Whether we l…
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@joshua said: @SpencerFier said: I must say, today's readings were very disheartening. Especially reading Figueroa learning that even in a country with a constitution as aspirational as Ecuador's, Indigenous groups only have a cert…
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I must say, today's readings were very disheartening. Especially reading Figueroa learning that even in a country with a constitution as aspirational as Ecuador's, Indigenous groups only have a certain degree of success protecting their lands and th…
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I> @a_hipp said: I firmly believe that assumption of an anti-extractivist stance is demeaning of indigenous autonomy as you mentioned but more so insulting as a simplification of the issue. By subsuming indigenous peoples into one group or vi…
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@a_hipp said: I enjoyed reading more about counter-narratives to the usual pool of authors we read who are presumably in differing socio-economic and educational standings than the communities they write about. I find that there is a colonial …
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@caroline22 said: I agree, @a_hipp- the language used to depict the indigenous people in Two Worlds Collide was devastating and one of my biggest takeaways. We read books in high school like the Heart of Darkness where those types of words are…
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I thought the response of the Peruvian government to Indigenous resistance compared to the US was very interesting. Whereas in the US, even though the same racism and disregard for laws exists, the strongest weapon that both sides are vying for is t…
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@cara said: @elle said: In terms of the ELF, I think the film did a good job of showcasing how the ELF moved towards the arsons as a means of proving their point. While I don’t think the tactic is very effective in achieving th…
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@ccstein said: I had heard of many of these groups prior to reading these chapters, such as the Audubon Society, Green Peace, and a few others. The fact that many of the major players in the environmental movement stemmed from conservationist …
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If a Tree Falls was a really interesting look into a very wild period in the environmental movement. Especially revisiting it having read more of Dowie, it is an interesting end to a century of environmentalism he marked as concluding with backslidi…
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@Julieta said: My topic about the new UPM pulp mill opening in Uruguay, is also an environmnetal justice issue. As with many of the topics before mentioned, there health consequences are going to have a different impact depending on class and …
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@fionaw said: 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…
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@a_hipp said: The environmental issue I selected, which involves the illegal killing of sharks in Costa Rica for the international fin trade, can be framed in terms of environmental justice. While I am looking at the policies such as CITES tha…
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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 illustrate the two origins o…
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The Latham quotation that @Julieta used in her post "Multinational corporations, we should conclude, really do fear activists, non-profits, informed consumers, and small producers, when they all work together." perfectly encapsulates why I believe t…
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@caroline22 said: I don’t think mainstream groups should be ignored because I think they can't be. The reality is that they have a wide reaching arm and same as @a_hipp, I had not been exposed to any criticisms of them prior to this class. I d…
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@a_hipp said: I think realistically, mainstream groups will hold onto their relevance, especially with the amount of funding they get, as the Big Three Dowie talked about. Ignoring them does not seem like a likely strategy as their social medi…
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@Madison said: @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 …
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@charlotte said: I definitely feel like the "human nature" being referred to isn't really nature at all but a product of socialization. There's nothing intrinsic about people which makes them only self-serving. I definitely feel like environme…
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@charlotte said: @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 bein…
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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 resources and support sma…
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@caroline22 said: Yeah, thanks thats a great articulation of what I meant- I agree. Thats probably why I believe grassroots have so much more potential at this point- much more specific and in turn, I think they are so much more impactful. I w…
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@caroline22 The three bites of the apple strategy was for me, as well, one of the most disheartening things I learned reading Dowie. Others made me righteously indignant, but the having no idea previously, and then learning that landmark legislation…
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I hadn't finished Dowie chapter four when I read this, but it ties into Bull even better than chapter three. Dowie is essentially applying Bull's thesis that elites are an impediment to more democratic and just governance. It was not even that big e…
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I believe that elites are elites whether they are business elites or environmental elites. The modifier put next to them does not change who they are. What makes them so was articulated very well by Bull. Due to their ability to affect practices and…