GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lake Huron, Pedestrian Zone, Food Bank
2 Apr 2017
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Lecture 8 nature and the crisis of sustainability. Extreme solutions by elites for a possible apocalypse: * elite fortified condo to escape the environmental ills and social crises outside. Wants the government to invest in emergency withdrawal systems rather than renewal. Skills like reading and writing, creation of earthseed. Knowledge of nature like indigenous plants: limits despite this: outside world involves money and resources. Lauren is privileged yet she is taking all the resources available to her to help others. *escaping a crumbling fortified environment, trying to improve her society rather than ignoring it. Recall gated communities, one is never sealed off. Making public transit free in efforts to reduce the pollution from cars. Key environmental impacts of urbanization: consumption of land for urban development, fragmentation of natural habitats, resource consumption in cities, externalizing airborne, liquid, and solid waste. Due to how airborne toxicity concentrates, those in the north like indigenous members attribute to lead poisoning.
