SOCY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Water Scarcity, Consumerism, Environmentalism
20 Jan 2017
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The environment: theories of the environment. Focus on large-scale structures, their systems, and how they impact and their ability to deal with environmental problems. Need for corporation to grow and bolster increasing profits. Treadmill of production: created by capitalism, everybody in the system depends on the constant productive growth. Capitalistic needs lead to exploitation of nonrenewable natural resources (negative effects on the environment) Focus on ways we come to define a variety of environmental issues as problems. Focus that there have been great rewards (like high profits and pay) for those who adversely affect the environment. Weak or nonexistent rewards/high costs for those who are interested in being more environmentally responsible: globalization and the environment. Environment performs three general functions for living things. (cid:862) uppl(cid:455) depot(cid:863: provides natural resources necessary for survival, renewable and nonrenewable resources (air, water, food, shelter, and material needed for industry, overuse can deplete or empty the supply depot.
