CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ozone Depletion, Planetary System, High Tech
5 Jan 2020
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By showing how these dominant understandings interplay and merge with complex social practices to make it more and more difficult to assume responsibility for our impacts upon the natural world. A look at some of the popular discourses within our technological age sheds light on what i assert are problematic themes regarding the planet and nature: as well, there are corporate/organizational and individual-level practices that are salient. At the corporate/organizational level, technological innovations in a globalized era seem to impel decision-makers along an environmentally disastrous route. At the individual level, a dominant trend in our own immersion in the world of what. Ursula franklin (1999) has called asynchronous communication seems to be toward fostering citizens lacking in meaningful understanding of or commitment to environmental issues. The various discourses reinforce one another, as do the different levels of practices. I am referring to schumacher"s highly influential small is beautiful (1973) and the re-issue of an edition entitled small is.
