GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Capital Accumulation, Social Actions, Political Ecology
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Ggrb21 lecture 3 - nature, society, and environmental change - five big themes of. Apolitical ecology: is the non-politicized study of natural environmental phenomena. Nature is separate from human beings and politics. Political ecology: is about factoring in humans and their politics into nature. It"s when nature and humans are studied together. Pierce blakey was an expert on soil erosion and degradation. Soil erosion was blamed on the poor. A path is curated to guide and influence you in a certain direction. Compelling, thus justifying our affection for the beauty and complexity of the non- human world. When you"re in a precarious situation, your adrenaline takes over and you run. Gives us an idea of untouched" landscapes, which have an absence of human influence. When the complexity of the interaction of human beings and other nature is ignored, then there i the pretense of apolitical ecologies.
