SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Multinational Corporation, Deep Ecology, Agribusiness

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Previously humans existed with nature at a micro scale and now they dominate the planet as a superspecies (humans have created the anthropocene era) The transnational corporation as a new dominating force in human history. For suzuki it is about culture: values and attitudes about how we treat the earth. Cultural values like blind faith in technology, economic progress at any cost, consumerism and an all for me attitude, loss of indigenous traditional culture ways of knowing and doing that had a harmonious relation to nature . Or do we need a paradigm change? (sustainable development or deep ecology) The idea of perpetual economic growth and gdp as the goal of global prosperity but annual corporate growth has not resulted in more good jobs or economic prosperity for all. The historical dialectic of development and destruction the exploitation and commodification of nature as an essential part of the mass production/mass consumption system.

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