ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Social Inequality, Global Issue, Cisgender

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Peter Timmerman

Document Summary

Movements make national legislative change cultural change, create new alternative social practices. Cultural change is uneven process, with radical challenges resulting in backlash as well as incorporation into dominant culture. Conservationist: managing natural resources for human use. First used in the 1890s by african american environmental activists in the southern us. In 1991 first national people of color environmental leadership summit held in washington dc, drifted the principles of environmental justice. In canada used understand the location of dumps railroad and lack of sewage treatment afrville ns. Also effects on indigenous communities such as the aamjwnaang first. The processes of colonization"s under capitalism went hand in hand with degradation of nature and overuse of natural resources. Even is distinction between social biological is not as clear as we think. Those that are closer to nature can be treated inequalities of race. Exploitation of nature justified by gendered and raced argument and ideologies.