HREQ 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Human Overpopulation, Overfishing, Deep Ecology
16 Dec 2014
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The western enlightenment project compels humans to engage in the scientific domination of nature. The domination of nature theme sees nature as both. Threat and as resource that needs to be conquered in order for humans to prosper. Humans are not seen as a part of ecological nature, nor is the human body seen as part of the environment. How do power relations fit into environmental concerns? the dialectic of development and destruction inherent in consumer capitalist society. Does the definition of society include the ecological. Forest depletion - clear-cutting of forests, natural disasters as caused by human (in)actions which are actually human-made disasters: hurricane katrina and. Tohoku earthquake and fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster as examples. synthetic chemicals in the environment and in our bodies. Or those who have the political and legal power to decide what direction our world is going? toxins in food, air and water and the negative effects on human health.
