POL300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Laundry Detergent, Bill Mckibben, Collective Action
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Ta office hours by appointment: thursday and friday: gerald. bareebe@mail. utoronto. ca. Individual change vs. collective action: key concepts last week: states, civil society, governance, environment, environment: green spaces, urban space, resource government [oil, gas, trees] It"s hard to ha(cid:448)e i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g together u(cid:374)less the group is reall(cid:455) s(cid:373)all u(cid:374)less there (cid:449)ere incentives, avoiding punishments: without that, it"s hard to ha(cid:448)e people (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g together. Sufficient: we have values that can change the system, the focus of individual action can be a tool to foster other kinds of change/bring awareness. Individual action can also implicate social justice issue: certain individuals are excluded from actions of being sustainable [what kind of social justice are we adjusting] Ideology that shapes our decisions: ethics/moral responsibility, social norms, what are we aiming to achieve, roles embedded into society [forms of social media, networks in virtual ways, resources based on location [land, financial, access to options] If (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k there"s roo(cid:373) for (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, tha(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e.