ENV100H1 Chapter Notes -Anthropocentrism, The Food Chain, Empty Spaces

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

1st visible characteristic of this type of society is that it produces poverty and misery yet riches the accumulation of wealth. The economy is directed by an ideal of development that"s encompassed by 2 infinite quantities. Within this type of growth economy, nature is simply a supply of natural resources, raw material for the satisfaction of human desires. This vision is instrumentalist and mechanical: ppl, animals, plants, minerals. I. o. w all living beings lose their autonomy and intrinsic value. The primary critique posed by liberation thought it that this model isn"t capable of creating wealth w. o generating poverty. It cant stimulate economic development w. o producing social exploitation, internally and globally. Nor is it democratic cuz it establishes a political system designed for control and dominance by the elite in liberal, representative democracies or military tutelage. The liberation"s proposal develops a development to meet the needs of all not just the strong.