Environmental History
What is the name of the famous photo of the Earth from space?
Earthrise [Lecture 5, Slide 22]
What is environmental Justice?
The idea that no community should bear more environmental burdens, and share less of the environmental benefits
Who pushed for the passing of the Antiquities Act?
Teddy Roosevelt
What is biocentrism?
Intrinsic value of all life regardless of helpfulness to humans
Define settler colonalism?
An insidious set of logics that leads to permanent settlement of Indigenous land, with elaborate myths to justify settlement and inequity
How did the concept of Environmental Justice come about?
Due to non-proportional impacts of pollution on the poor and people of color.
Who helped sign off on the establishment of the EPA?
Richard Nixon
What is ecocentrism?
Intrinsic value not only on all life but also all systems of an ecosystem such as the rocks, sunlight, rain, and soil.
What did the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson focus on?
Points out that chemicals accumulate up in food chain and threaten birds and ultimately us” [Lecture 6, Slide 20]
Not mentioned during lecture, but Carson especially focused on the toxic incestide DDT
Give an example of a recent environmental justice issue that we covered in class?
E-Waste, flint water crisis, farm working conditions, DAPL, dumaish river
Aldo Leopold, a famous ecologist, wrote a non-fiction work in 1949 titled…
A Sand County Almanac
What is the global challenge in climate change?
Global Challenge
Emissions all over the world cause climate change
People will be differentiated affected
Effects in a given location not proportional to emissions
Name at least two myths perpetuated by settler colonalism
Myth of religious superiority
Myth of “Property rights” obtained by “working” or “improving” land
Myth of the “Frontier” and “pioneer” (a form of nativism)
What is intersectional environmentalism?
An inclusive approach that advocates for the protection of people and planet
“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of wilderness. The forests are to be used by man. Every other consideration comes secondary.”
This quote is said by which famous environmentalist?
Gifford Pinchot
Deontological ethics is based on what two terms?
Deontological ethics is based on what two terms?
Duties
Rights