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In response to Josh's question about the best practices for engagement, I have a couple thoughts. I believe that as long as any indigenous people are forced to be financially dependent of extractivism, there is no correct decision. It is not anyone …
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@a_hipp said: @SpencerFier said: 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 …
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@SpencerFier said: 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 indigeno…
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@charlotte said: 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, pr…
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@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 really scary example of the Untied States' involvement in Latin A…
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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 used and it’s thought o…
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@Julieta said: Yes, @cara and I took that class together. Joshua, correct me if I am wrong, but I rememebr that most communities were given land titles around 1992/3(?) after a massive protest that included walking for 250km and camping outsid…
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@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 fish way better than you do already (I know that from first hand experience digging up worms and stil…
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I was actually really surprised at a lot of the organizations I looked into out there. The main one I'm focusing on is Amazon Frontlines which is a newer group. They take a very holistic approach to supporting the local indigenous people. AF is work…
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As a quick reminder, my topic is oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon polluting water and harming indigenous people of the region. This can absolutely be framed in terms of environmental justice- it is firsthand an example of environmental injustic…
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@SpencerFier said: 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 enc…
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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 just watched about the first half of Silence of the Pandas. 1) It made me think of a Netflix docu-series that was #1 on Netflix last week when I watched it (I'm not sure if it still is) but its called Tiger King. It's focused on the zoo/personal …
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Are we zooming today still and just not checking in on projects or just not zooming at all?
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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 do think there is positiv…
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I will say though I do think that bringing people with different backgrounds and different beliefs together, and giving them power (ex: on board groups), would absolutely make a change. Whether it's enough change, or the change that I would like to …
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@a_hipp this is a really cool play on the "third-party" idea. I totally agree- transparency is SO important. The public can absolutely be that third-party and it is such a great concept because losing public support is a huge threat to these NGO's. …
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@Julieta said: @caroline22 said: @a_hipp said: Caroline, the more I thought about more representation or more diverse representation on the boards of environmental organizations, which I also advocated more, the m…
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Not really sure where I'm going with this but just thinking a little more linguistically here. Reading all of the responses has made me think about what we mean when we say "human nature". I think a lot of the things we use the phrase in reference t…
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@a_hipp said: Caroline, the more I thought about more representation or more diverse representation on the boards of environmental organizations, which I also advocated more, the more I wanted to clarify my previous thought. I believe as you d…
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This is a really interesting idea. The concept that its human nature to be selfish is undeniably a narrative I have heard, and probably believed, growing up. It's almost lazy and arrogant. Giving thought to it, I'm sure that it is a biproduct of col…
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That relates to a concept Bull brings up in chapter 2. He provides three potential changes that he believes can occur with the elites: capitalistic elite dynamics, elite circulation, and state-elite distribution. The idea is that elite shifts will a…
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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 will say though, Emily ma…
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I agree with @SpencerFier that an elite is an elite- a modifier in front of the word makes little difference. One type of challenge that elites pose that hasn’t really been mentioned, is the power to negatively affect environmental agendas even afte…
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I'm conflicted on it- not convinced either way. But to play devils advocate, while the destruction was definitely super damaging to those few white collar families affected, I'm not convinced that the harm caused to a relatively small number of fami…
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I see where you're coming from @slothman with the hypocritical perspective. My interpretation is that anarchy represents basically free will and is anti-authoritarian. On one hand, this aligns with early environmentalism as it is trying to remove th…
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I had heard of a majority of these organizations, mainly with exception to the SCLDF, EDF, and NRDC. These readings absolutely changed my perspectives on essentially all of them. While I am definitely reading Losing Ground with a grain of salt, as i…
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Completely agree that upcharging flights to compensate for carbon footprints would make travel less accessible to poorer people and that that doesn't feel right. However, I can't really think of a feasible alternative. It seems like even if there we…
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My plan is to write about water pollution. I will be looking more specifically at the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. This topic is really interesting to me because of the specific connection between the water pollution and indiginous people of the ar…
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It also seems like theres opportunity to follow up a quiz like this with much more information. On the individual scale theres a lot of aspects of people, atleast specifcally American's lives, that feel unnegotiable (and use a lot of resources and e…