Aristotle's Warning and Human Progress
The modern world has chosen to live in this city.
What is techne
The Death Project is...
The process of reinforcement of hegemonic principles of colonialism such as racism, environmental degradation and the patriarchy
Capitalism is approximately this many years old, and arose after peasant rebellions toppled this former system.
What is 500, what is feudalism
The founding principle of this movement is: since the 1980s, hundreds of reports have shown that "people of color" and low-income populations have suffered from greater environmental harm from waste sites, incinerators, refineries, transportation infrastructures than white and well-off communities
What is environmental racism
Define ecocide.
Unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.
The differences between techne and phronesis.
Techne centers around economic development through the accumulation of capital and asserts that the world is something to be worked upon and organized in a way where it is useful to humans. Prioritizes technological development and progress.
Phronesis centers around public services, public education, tradition, happiness, and stability. Economic development is less important.
Coloniality is...
What is the system of domination that emerged with the European expansion. Reflects the long-term effects of Eurocentrism and global capitalism stemming from colonialism.
What are the 6 types of pollution mentioned in “Contamination of the Earth?”
Light, visual, noise, electromagnetic, mental, and genetic
These define a "safe operating space for humanity," and the original formulation listed 9 such operating spaces.
What are planetary boundaries
How are "unlawful" and "wanton" acts of ecocide different from one another?
The introduction of the qualifier ‘unlawful’ captures environmentally harmful acts that are already prohibited in law. “Wanton” means with reckless disregard for damage which would be clearly excessive in relation to the social and economic benefits anticipated.
This process was invented by rich countries to continue mass extractivism.
What is development
What was the reasoning behind the colonists' treatment of natives as sub-human?
They considered all non-Christians to lack humanity and therefore below themselves. They perceived native communities to be lawless, chaotic entities that must be taken out of the "state of nature."
This form of economic development is characterized by cooperation, sharing, and local production of goods for use rather than profit.
What is subsistence economy
All toxic and long-lived substances that humans release into the environment
What are novel entities
List 3 steps that may be involved in an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Project screening, scoping, the consideration of alternatives, the description of the project/development action, the description of the environmental baseline, the identification of the main impacts, the prediction of impacts, the evaluation and assessment of significance, mitigation, public consultation and participation, EIS presentation, review, decision-making, post-decision monitoring, auditing.
The economic definition of poverty transformed __% of the world into poor subjects in 1948 when the World Bank defined as poor those countries with an annual per capita income below $__.
What is 70%, what is $100
How many people lived on the island of Hispaniola before Columbus came?
What is approx. 60,000
Costs that go unpaid by businesses specifically relating to environmental costs such as CO2 emissions
What is free natural capital
A process that describes an economic phenomenon where the rapid development of one sector of the economy (particularly natural resources) precipitates a decline in other sectors
What is Dutch Disease
Demography, economic base, housing, transport, recreation, other local services, socio-cultural (lifestyles, quality of life, societal problems, community stress and conflict)
This process brings the third world into the politics of expert knowledge and Western science
What is professionalization
How does the erasure of colonialist history like Columbus contribute and sustain The Death Project?
Sugarcoating colonialist history of the world allows the practices first started in colonialism such as racism, and capitalist development, to go on and ingrain deeper into society.
Why is there an unequal distribution of pollution risks between the global north and the global south?
The global south has become the industrial engine for overconsumption in the global north leading to increased and concentrated levels of pollution and waste pileup.
Why does specialization in the export of primary commodities have long term consequences?
This process acts in favor of the industrial goods that are imported and against the primary goods that are exported. Among other factors, this is because the latter are characterized by low income elasticity as they can be
replaced by synthetic substitutes, because they do not hold a monopoly (they are commodities, meaning that the logic of the world market is what mainly operates to determine their price), because their level of technology and innovative development is low, and because manufactured products contain increasingly fewer raw materials.
In EIA, Chp. 1-2, what would be a deep ecologists' perspective on EIA?
EIA cannot provide total certainty about the environmental consequences of development proposals; they feel that any projects carried out under uncertain or risky circumstances should be abandoned.