HREQ 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, Monocropping, Plastic Pollution

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

We depend on other animals to stay alive ourselves. Sociology never looked at society as including the environment. How did humans become the dominant species on the planet; dominates all other life forms. What"s great for business isn"t what"s great for the planet. We got here because of long standing ideologies: the western enlightenment project. Science was developed in the attempt to save humanity. If you want to save humanity you have to dominate nature - primary ideology. Using pigs as harvesters for organs, genetically modified foods. The more destruction, the more product could be made - There are ways to cooperate with nature but humans don"t do it. The ideology that says we should dominate nature ties into the capitalist ideology of profit. There is this idea that humans are supposed to dominate nature and everything in it is part of this religion. The modern capitalist system sees the environment as not as it is but capital.