ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Murray Bookchin, David Schlosberg, Deep Ecology

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Causes: human power over humans and over nature: feb. 6. Mann, michael (1986). extract from chapter 3 the emergence of stratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilization in mesopotamia. the sources of social power. The basic argument i make in this lecture is that human capacity to have impacts on the nonhuman world is directly related to the capacity of elite groups of humans to influence the behaviour of masses of humans. The two readings are related to this argument as follows: Mann (1986) shows that social stratification (power of elites) emerged with the transition from nomadic to fixed settlement societies; 222, emphasis in original), ie that there is a relationship between stratification and domination in the human world and impacts of humans on the nonhuman world. This argument is similar to others. believes solution is for humans to leave nature alone, not manage; the bookchin reading is largely an argument against deep ecology opposite of anthropocentrism, believes nature has inherent worth,