GEOG 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Redlining, Environmental Racism, Racialization
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Sustainability fix --> when sustainability is proposed as the "fix" to uncontrolled metabolisms. They invoke the sustainability discourse as relying on cities and cities being separate from nature. They want to fix economic growth while maintaining other things. Economic growth is a variable that cannot be given up. The way that people satisfy economic growth is they utilize. Technological development --> finding new materials to "fix" things. Sustainable development is part of the fix to safeguard growth trajectories. Occurred in the wake of the industrial capitalisms downtown and the global ecological crisis --> the new area that has been found after the failure of fordism. It focuses on selective incorporation of ecological goals and the greening of governance --> only focusing on things that can make. The dominant list to make sustainable cities --> e. g. vancouver uses these lists to make themselves completely sustainable. Has taken a particular form because of the sustainability industry.
