SOSC 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Plastic Pollution, Overfishing, Smog
25 Apr 2013
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We used myth and religion to explain things but now have science and this has started the different view to one that sees us as above nature. The western enlightenment project, science and the domination of nature . Nature is seen as both threat and as resources that need to be conquered. We are stuck in the paradigm in the domination of nature but b/c we now have more scientific knowledge we can actually accomplish this and: is part of human history; started a long time ago. Those w/ power were the ones who decided we should have this consumerist society that perpetuates the domination of nature. The dialectic of development and destruction inherent in consumer capitalist society: in order to develop (developing resources into consumer commodities ) Society also must include environment also b/c w/o environment there would be no society -> does the definition of society include the.
