ENVS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Our Ancestors, Anthropocene, Apocalypse
31 Oct 2017
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Anthropocene epoch: understood geologically as a time when the collective actions of humans began influencing earth systems in marked, unprecedented ways. Drivers of climate destabilization: expanding human economic activities and ecosystems, plants and animals consumer lifestyle. Cafaro and primack - argue that anthropocene proponents and selfish and unjust views that deem the extinction of species as morally acceptable as long as humans suffer no harm. Conservation practices are ones that keep and let go of certain species. Colonial campaigns has irreversibly damaged ecosystems in great lakes region. War-like violence strategies that are very militaristic. Fallout of industrial settler campaigns - indigenous people exercise political and cultural self-determination even though the us is one of the predominant regions, and they can do little to combat them.
