ENVS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Val Plumwood, Rachel Carson, Dualism
27 Nov 2013
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Rachel carson silent springs video: varying interpretations of nature/wilderness-cultural relations, cultural influences. Wild education gets at who we are, and where we are. John livingston: concerned with wild education in toronto. Suggests that the failure of conservation is not out there. " the failure is rooted in the fact that ppl are part of the prob. The things i values such as birds- are being destroyed by other things i also value: human life. The paradox becomes how to love both things when something from your culture is responsible for the destruction of the other. Her experience, presented to her a lesson about vulnerability of humankind that is still known to indigenous cultures, but lost to the technological one which now colonies the earth. It is because of this we appreciate indigenous culture regarding the environment and the notion of sicla tunic. Val plumwood"s account is a very stark one.
