ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Asian Development Bank, Lewis Carroll, Idiocracy

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

Document Summary

There is no hurry; there is no hurry whatever . It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place . Asian development bank spent million to improve agriculture on bali. Target for improvement = ancient agricultural system organised 173 villaged cooperatives linked by a network of temples operated by water priests. Work in service to the water god dewi danu. Old practices ended (fallowing) as well as community rituals. Priest"s role in religion of agama tirtha was ecological master planners. Keep a finely tuned system operating productively. Western development experts dismantled that system that worked for over a millennium and replaced it with something that didnt work. Homogenized knowledge is acquired and used more rapidly and on a larger scale. Rapid technological change and rise of global economy. This undermined cultures, communities and religions that slowed the rate of change and filtered appropriate knowledge from all the new information.