ENVS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: High Tech, Val Plumwood, Ecocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2100
• Professor: Timothy Leduc

Document Summary

Greenwood we need to have a critical component added to our place- based education experiences. Livingston brought this experience into his education (his birds) and having it taken away brought a lot of critical thinking to his life. This led to his discussions that our urban lives have a sensory overload (everything becomes about the human it is an institutionalized delusions). An example is that high-tech urban progress is a human achievement. We now appear to believe we have no need of sensory stimulation beyond that provided by ourselves. Greenwood adds re-inhabitation and decolonization (unlearning much of what dominant culture and schooling teaches). Think of the de-colonial histories that are embedded in these places and learning to live well and ecologically in places that have been disrupted. Maximize self interests, individual benefits will benefit society as a whole. Laissez-faire market economics and the trickle down theory.