Enviromental politics midterm 2024

Normative

an argument about what ought to be

Positive Statement

An objective, fact-based statement that describes what is

Externality

A cost or benefit caused economic actor that is not suffered or enjoyed by that same actor

Positive Externality

when consuming or producing a good causes a benefit to a third party

Negative Externality

when consuming or producing a good causes a cost to a third party

Cooptation

the appropriation of an idea or culture that one transfers to another situation, in the process watering it down or stereotyping the culture it came from

Empirical

relying on experience or observation alone

Degrowth

an idea that growth is uneconomic in the long run, unjust, is ecologically unsustainable and that it will never be enough

Hegemony

the dominance of one group over another but via the normalization of ideas, values and norms more that coercive force

Greenwashing

the practice of voicing concern for the environment and claiming credit for providing solutions while doing the bare minimum

Adaptation

anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimize the damage one causes

Mitigation

making the impacts of climate change less severe by preventing or reducing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

Capitalism

an economic system in which most means of production are privately owned and production aims for profit

Neoliberalism

the predominant form of modern-day capitalism which is rooted in deregulation, privatization, austerity, and letting the market decide

Environmental racism

Institutional rules, regulations, policies, government and/or corporate decisions that deliberately target certain communities for locally undesirable land uses and lax enforcement of zoning and environmental laws, resulting in communities being disproportionally exposed to toxic and hazardous waste based upon race

Ecofacism

an ideology that tends to place blame for the deterioration of the environment on the factors like immigration, overpopulation, and intensive industrialization

Activism

trying to make change through direct action

Structure

rules and resources that do not exist apart from the activities but have an ongoing influence on their creation and reproduction

Agency

the capacity of people or organizations to make things happen

Throughput

Real material things, things you can drop of your foot

Capitalocene

understanding capitalism not just as an economic system but as a way of organizing the relations between humans and the rest of nature

Summary of History of the world in 7 cheap things

The authors want us to understand capitalism as Capitalocene. They highlight how colonization has created seven cheap things, nature, money, work, care, food, energy and lives that making up capitalism and the inequalities we have today because of it.

Summary of A Planet to Win

This book pushes for a New, Green New Deal within the United States. Its main arguments are dismantling the fossil fuel industry, focusing on renewable energy, climate-friendly work, no-carbon housing, and free public transit.

Summary of Warming Up: How Climate Change Is Changing Sport

This book is about how Climate change is changing sports. Mostly highlighting the injuries players are receiving, environmental impacts of sports and how sports are impacted by changing landscapes and the economic impacts.

Summary of the film Fire in Paradise

This documentary was about the 2018 Camp fire in California and how it destroyed a town called Paradise. This film highlights the neglect of PG&E to upkeep their equipment, the unpreparedness of Cal fire, and the dangers of not preparing for the changing climate for rural towns. Ex. poor infrastructure meaning people were trapped on roads unable to move because of traffic.

Summary of The Race to Save the World

This documentary show cases how several people are protesting climate change with disruption. Ex. Children changing policies and stopping trains, the lady on the train tracks in a tripod, the guy shutting off the oil pipelines, the kayaks.

Summary of Climate Chaos (Part II): The Militarization of Liberals’ Climate Change Response

This podcast is about the military’s impact on Climate Change. Violent militarism that the United States Military engages in is an extractive economic system that exploits people and the planet for money.

intersectionality

the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage

planned obsolescence

the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term

cheapness

it’s a set of strategies to manage relations between capitalism and the web of life by temporarily fixing capitalism’s crises

Anthropocene

that it’s just humans being humans, in the way that kids will be kids, that has caused climate change and the planet’s sixth mass extinction

Cheap Nature

The exploitation of new world resources for cheap, including labeling indigenous populations as “nature”

Cheap Money

money as capital, as the power to command life, work, and resources

Cheap Work

Slavery

Cheap Care

The creation of “men” and “women” and then the creation of a womens role as domestic laborers who go unpaid for taking care of others.

Cheap Food

The exploitation of new world foods, specifically easy things to produce like wheat and beans which then in turn feed inter-city workers.

Cheap energy

Things like coal and wood that are cheap to use but expensive to us in the long run from pollution and lack of ecosystems

Cheap Lives

Scientific racism from colonization and the discrimination it leads to today.

dimensions of sustainability

environmental, economic, and social

Strategies

The path/the game plan

tactics

Actions

Goals

the destination