POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Naomi Klein, Gord Downie, Pamela Anderson
12 Dec 2017
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Radical environmentalism a ecocentric stance based on an exaggerated form of environmentalism: darrel hanna radical environmentalist. The green party: used to be a party of more right" views and beliefs, structuring much of their party around business and corporate welfare, however has become much more left" in the last. The new iron law of energy development must be: if you wouldn"t want it in your backyard, then it doesn"t belong in anyone"s backyard. That applies equally to oil and gas pipelines; fracking in new brunswick, Four perspectives of radical environmentalism: deep ecology, an environmental philosophy and social movement associated with the work of. Arne naess (norwegian philosopher: the deep movement involves deep questioning, right down to fundamental root causes. The short-term, shallow approach stops before the ultimate level of fundamental change, often promoting technological fixes (e. g. recycling, increased automotive efficiency, export-driven monocultural organic agriculture) based on the same consumption-oriented values and methods of the industrial economy.
