ENVS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sustainable Development, Oxymoron, Gary Snyder
6 Sep 2018
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The language we use in the environment: volatile, coming up with terms to talk about what we think, and the terms crash at our feet. Sustainable growth: used until people noticed the oxymoron within it, continued evaluation of political and economic policy that are not premised on endless growth. Sense of place: passive receptivity, view of uneroded places. Criticism of the word environmental: imply what is around us, we are in the middle, not connected. What could we do to make these terms more solid: move beyond abstraction and beyond pure rationality, sustainable. The romantic movement has continued through the present: trying to understand an alternative to the hierarchical way our world is organized, the bond of family can be reinforced with the bonds to landscape. Affiliation is finally becoming a proper and only response to climate change: associating yourself with the fundamental costs to climate change, without addressing them the changes we need to make cannot be made.
