SOCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jane Elliot, Anthropocene, Social Darwinism
15 Apr 2017
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Correlation between co2 levels and earth temperature. Ch4 (methane) also plays a role in temperature: heavier than co2 but not around as long. Will co2 levels return to normal: maybe, it depends on what we do now. Current administration takes social darwinian approach: survival of the fittest. Photographed niger river: petroleum based material cycle. Calving event: when ice breaks off from glacier. Social responsibility: we have obligations to each other, how climate change needs to be looked a. We do better together than in a pyramid (hierarchy: indigenous view. Becoming an accepted term to refer to this period: used to be called holocene. Right just denies climate change: or says we will adapt. Left says it"s too general of a word: you not recycling one bottle is not the same as a state not following carbon admittance laws. Left wants to call anthropocene capitalocene: points at the systemic issue. Study of hierarchies: race, class, gender, etc.
