ENVS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Economic Globalization, Class Discrimination, Economism

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We must recognize the limits of this globalization movement. We had an image of the earth. Economic globalization: dream of capitalism, destruction of resources, civs for the movement of capital. What is it that we"re sustaining when we talk about sustainable development. Resource attraction increases, are we sustaining an unsustainable system. Inequality, naturally created by the economic and monetary system. Structural classism: taking from the poor and giving to the rich, banking system. Poverty causes the crimes, stress and dysfunction between poorer people. Gradual fight against borders that inhibit the flow of capital (but not people) Homogenization: creation of needy client, creation of poverty, replacement of place with space. Economism: objectification from america, technology essential for lower costs and faster speed, ability to consume becomes judgement of good life/poverty, economic chains lengthen, economic rationality trumps on ecological . Continue authority of the state: id of social progress with economic growth.

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