Environmentalism

Capitalism Save the Planet,” Steinberg argues, No company, however, is likely to betray its shareholders in the name of sustainability. No company will foreclose on growth and profits for the sake of a greener planet. No company will embrace environmentalism at the expense of a bad profit-and-loss statement. Corporate environemtalism, in other words, does not address the fundamental structural problems at the core of the capitalist…

Assessing the Health Outcomes since the Implementation of Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act Human beings and environment share a relationship that is very codependent. Their relationship is such that positive or negative disturbance to one can directly or indirectly bring about a change in the other. One prime example of this was the overuse of pesticide in the 1960s which tampered with the earth’s natural state; the abusive use of Dichloro Diphenyl Tricoloro (DDT) poisoned…

In my last paper I talked about the role of visual media, particularly photographs, in social movements. I wanted to stay along this theme of media, but a different subunit this time. Media as a whole interests me, from videos, to photographs, blogs etc. Books, though, are not often considered media. Upon inspection, however, in the past they have had as much effect, if not more, as other media forms. Mass marketed books have the ability to prompt critical thinking, by questioning norms and what…

silently judges anyone who drinks bottled water, who can only look at nature photography in small doses because the earth is so beautiful I could literally cry! You know, that kind. Frankly, I could be far worse. I try to rein in my rampant environmentalism to tolerable levels. Yet, the thought of my impact on the environment, and that of those around me, is never far from my mind. In my defense, I was raised by avid outdoorsmen and environmentalist parents. They grew up in a time when being…

In this book, Guattari focus in the three ecologies in his conception of Ecosophy. Guattari’s argument that we have an erroneous conception of ecology of environmental struggle, he proposes ideas such as difference of opinion, political dissidence, Action to stand out again and Result of this action , break-up and the number of components in a system (such as a multiple or a group of energy levels). Also he proposes ideas such as strategies or processes towards a reconstruction of social and…

Inspiring Future Environmentalists The last set of ESS lectures emphasized the link between environmental and human rights. They also explained how public pressure can affect environmental issues in a positive way. This link between environmental and human rights was expressed in the first two lectures, “Environmental Constitutionalism” and “The Fall 2016 CESD Report”. Both lectures spoke of the need for public control of our precious natural resources by exploring the downsides of…

Economically, the 21st century has been characterized by The Great Recession, an ongoing economic decline that began in 2007 when mortgage concerns hit United States markets and share indexes plunged. The U.S. housing bubble burst, damaging financial institutions and creating an interbank credit crisis. World and U.S. markets began to slide in 2008, and U.S. oil prices reached a record $147 a barrel. When the stock market crashed, over $1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in market value assets…

environmental awareness, and learning or participating in environmental beliefs, are all forms of eco-activism. Eco-activism can also be seen as ecological consciousness, meaning that theories such as Dr. Rob Nixon’s “Slow Violence”, serves as a guide to environmentalism. This theory explains that all environmental atrocities “occur steadily and out of sight.”( Okuyade,x). This means taking it a step further to realize that violence is not a term just coined to physical harm and/or bloodshed but…

The main goal of the ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep…

Sustainability and hindsight The regulatory, political solutions for growing most developed economy and out of debt has potential environmental ramifications. Especially in industrialized economy where the demand for growth and deficit has slightly put environmental concerns behind economic gains. The growth driven economic prosperity of countries has lead to academics to question the basis of sustainability and sustainable development which was popularised by the Brundtland 1987 report “Our…