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@fionaw said: 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 h…
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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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@Julieta said: My concern with giving that power or agency to international organizations is that there is a lot of cultural differences, priorities, etc. that can be lost in the process, and also the corruption, interest, and bureaucracy th…
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@fionaw said: This was my ideology too, I don't really see large social change happening but I do think that short circuits are more possible. I think the shift would take awhile. Eating local foods is trendy and I've noticed that certain pl…
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I liked reading about the short circuit system which emphasized localism. The first thing that came to mind was food. Other than some supplementing here and there, I think localism in foodways is an achievable system. However, the globalization of o…
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@slothman said: @cara said: Its hard for me to have a definitive opinion on the green economy one way or another. The integration of economics and environmentalism is important and necessary. However, it seems to me to not be so pr…
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@Julieta said: I believe social pressure can generate big changes. Somehow I feel like in the US culture we kind of lost faith in social movements even if they have created the most meaningful changes in the workers, feminists, and black movem…
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Its hard for me to have a definitive opinion on the green economy one way or another. The integration of economics and environmentalism is important and necessary. However, it seems to me to not be so productive and its integration has given the pub…
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@Madison said: I think the issues regarding dams as a sustainable energy are interesting to discuss because we've grown up regarding dams as a "clean" source of energy. Before this class I knew about the ecological consequences of dams but I d…
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I liked how hydrodevelopment was contextualized in “Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam.” The article first framed hydrodevelopment has being a solution to the seasonality and unpredictability of water as i…
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@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 interesting. Bates discusses that the people there (deforesting) do…
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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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The nexus of globalization and neoliberal policies has left indigenous communities to defend their land from privatization and extraction by outsiders. This intersection is referred to by Sawyer throughout Crude Chronicles. I agree that globalizatio…
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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 implemented in a deceptive manner to continue…
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@SpencerFier said: @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…
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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 very insightful i…
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@fionaw said: @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 we…
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@SpencerFier said: @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…
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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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Through the lens of The Surfrider Foundation, whose mission i to protect the world’s oceans and beaches, I chose to explore the environmental issue of marine contamination and pollution. Their mission falls under Robert Bullard’s definition of envir…
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@Julieta said: @a_hipp said: @SpencerFier said: @a_hipp, I completely agree with your first paragraph, but find your second overly optimistic. As much as I'd love to see these massive NGOs reformed through public …
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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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I think that we would be remised to dismantle all the mainstream environmental organizations. Even if we were to reallocate that money or influence to a grassroots organization, the complications would likely transfer too. Therefore I think that ref…
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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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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 inherent anti-atruism, nor do i think cooperation and mutualism are necessarily ant…
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As we have learned, environmental destruction is often a result of existing systems of power. I think environmental organizations should incorporate more opposition to the values and societal rules perpetuated in and by the industrialized West. In e…
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@Madison said: I agree with what you said about organizations, both grassroots and big corporations have a role to play in movement and can be important in producing change. I think grassroots organizations are responsible for putting the pres…
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@fionaw said: I think overspecialization of these organizations is hurting them but is also necessary. Without specialization to the degree of some companies the mission could get lost. I think there can be a balance of how specialized a compa…
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I believe an elite is an elite and well-funded environmental organizations are not an exception. That being said, I think organizations, like individuals, in the environmental movement from various backgrounds or statuses are necessary - this is a …
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@fionaw said: I agree that violence can be very effective and it is definitely faster than other methods but I don't think that it is completely necessary. I'm not against the property damage done by ELF but I do think that it isn't the righ…