IR 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Habitat Destruction, The Who, Pharmaceutical Industry
21 Dec 2016
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Movements tend to evolve by splintering or branching, orthodox environmental discourse arises with dominant ngos and a backlash occurs. That"s kind of how environmental justice got big. Graph from before comparing one dimension of tactics and discourse. Transgressive discourse includes social ecology, deep ecology, political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-anarchism, and indigenous cosmology. All of this falls under climate justice, which is a very amorphous thing. And terms have been coopted, the man tries to side with climate justice. Minority and disadvantaged groups suffer disproportionately from environmental hazards. Studies have shown 4x - 7x more likely to live near incinerators, dumps . Adequate water sanitation systems, sewage treatment, access to nature. Native american activist girl example, mining facility was set up contingent on them being supplied electricity, then it was priced beyond what they could pay. Absurd smoking gun requirement, must be able to prove that they did it.
