GPHY 368 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Breakthrough Institute, Adam Curtis, Hypernormalisation
16 Dec 2016
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Mark whitehead environmental transformations part 2: living in the anthropocene. 7. 1 introduction: protecting people from nature or protecting nature from people. Orleans, insufficient evacuation transport for non-car owners: the poorest and african americans suffered most, federal emergency management agency (fema) too slow with food, water, medical supplies. Chapter on gov(cid:495)t in managing and regulating env affairs. 7. 2 a brief env history of the nation state. 7. 2. 2 states, government and the environment: many ancient empires founded to regulate water supply in arid areas. 7. 3 thinking about state-environment relations: green arbiters and ecological leviathans. 7. 3. 1 anarchism and the ecological good life: anarchism; emerged 19th c. ; the absence of leader. Henry david thoreau; lived isolated in 1845 by. 1: modern state seen as positive for human-env relations. State responsible for collective interests of society e. g. responsible resource management: common goods would otherwise be overexploited by individuals if not state regulated, states can govern environmental externalities; unwanted side effects of economic transactions.
