ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Liberation Theology, Chipko Movement, Vandana Shiva

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

Such a way of imagining the world allows us to employ cba with sentient beings. The cost benefit analysis (cba) of utilitarianism might calculate the. Medical wastes: the environmental crisis run along the same fault line of economic, racial and political oppression that pockmark our global village. Environmental racism: united church of christ commission for racial justice 1987 toxic. Wellbeing of other & environmental racism: the greenhouse that is forming now will have great consequences on life and life systems that last for hundreds of thousands of years. Whose wellbeing is being ignored: far from reducing even our 1990 emissions, desertification, sea level rise, ocean acidification, concludes that honed not genetically but culturally) environmental ethics with feminist politics. Shiva knowledge dictatorship: reductive nature of scientific reasoning: dissects, de-values, privatizes, diverts (waters, genetic engineering (farmers seed vs. gmo seed) Ignores whole system (gaia) approach: monoculture of the mind. Shiva conquest and colonization: leads to conquest of nature, women, future generations, disenfranchised.