ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Warren Buffett, Louis C.K., Postcolonialism
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Lecture 5 environment, development and the postcolonial. Say they would rather be hit by a truck than be fat. 626 million people in india have to defecate in public (no adequate washroom facilities. The way we exist makes little sense. That wanting has consequences for others (that are serious and worse than silly) We have exacerbated poverty, inequality, and ecological destruction in the name of. Reject the idea that we must choose between humans or the environment; humans or animals. Certain people"s environments suck, while certain other people"s do not. In our consumption, we make value judgments about the worth of our lives compared to others. An anti-politics machine : this means that, often, by giving people things in the name of development, we are ensuring that they depoliticize themselves. Technical solutions do not solve structural problems, they only further them.