GEOG 300 Chapter 3: Read before 07262018
27 Jul 2018
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Read before 07/26/2018
Neo liberalism has conned Us into fighting climate change as Individuals .
Stop obsessing with how personally green you live -and start collectively taking on
corporate power .
Fossil fuel corporations are rendering our ettorts Irrelevant ;
they make up for 7It .of
the carbon emissions since 1988 .
Neoliberals m:Thatcher and Reagan
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Dismantle any barriers to exercise unaccountable private power .
Erect the private power to the exercise of any democratic public will .
Trademark policies of privatization ,deregulation ,tax outs and tree trade deals have
liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and harm the environment .
Lobbying and corporate donations have obstructed Green policies And kept fossil fuel
flowing .Unions have also been undercut .
Neoliberal ism celebrates competitive Self -interest and hyper .individualism .Young people
in this era are more individualistic and consumerist .
Thrives on people believing that being afflicted by the Structural problems of the
exploitative system was apersonal deficiency .
*Individual choices will most count when the economic system Can provide viable ,
environmental options for everyone .
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. to persuade Us to address climate change through out pocket books )
rather than through power and politics .
Jeremy Corbin 's Labour Manifesto →retooling the economy ;insisting corporate Oligarchs
no longer run Amok .
No more individual vs. collective action :We need both to protect our climate .
Neo liberalism encourages to think of ourselves as consumers ,rather than as citizens .
We need individual experiences and stories that generate sustained collective action .
"The End of the human race Will be that it Will die of civilization .
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It is through stories we Weave reality
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Giving avoice to wilderness ,
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living with it ,not separate from it .
Through nature and wonder ,we can say we don't know what's in store ,but
we 're willing to LOOK .
celebrate the uniqueness of your story and walk together .
There's afalse dichotomy In "individual vs. collective "
"Us ": nature +humans .
Individual vs .Collective :Are you responsible for fixing climate change.
we all need to take responsibility to climate change and take actions in our own
lives .Sustainable life choices do make adifference in the following ways :
aSave energy and resources
aTelling companies the customers are environmentally -inclined .
AInspire people around you to do the same .Normalize the action .
AMentally rewarding .
Document Summary
Stop obsessing with how personally green you live - and start collectively taking on corporate power . Dismantle any barriers to exercise unaccountable private power. Erect the private power to the exercise of any democratic public will. , deregulation , tax outs and tree trade deals have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and harm the environment. Young people in this era are more individualistic and consumerist. Thrives on people believing that being afflicted by the. Individual system was a personal deficiency . choices will most count when the economic system. Can provide viable environmental options for everyone . Us to address climate change through out pocket books rather than through power and politics . Weave reality ourselves stories that as that consumers rather than as citizens generate sustained collective action it. Look . living with it not separate from it we can say we don"t know what"s in store but celebrate the uniqueness of your story and walk together.
