ENVS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Cronon, Environmentalism, Environmental Racism
27 Nov 2013
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Market mechanisms: admissions trading and offsets (coping mechanism) Technological fixes: certainly not dealing with climate change problem. Appeal to local consumption: unrealistic to tackle the problem from this viewpoint. Very difficult to find solutions in a system that got us into the problem in the first place emission trade youtube video. Framing problems as global is what coined the expression think globally act locally. Another idea is that we attempt to preserve nature through enclosure. William cronon criticizes mainstream environmentalism for believing that environmentalism is out there he say that is everywhere. From a one worldism where everyone is the same into a one worldism that respects difference: a geography of environmental inequalities by communities that are suffering injustices inspires a reconstructed sense of place . The environmental justice movement is a collection of various subgroups. Myth 1: the environmental movement is white: not true .
