concern and human nature

  • ideologies of concern

    • post materalism

    • paradigm shift

      • human exceptionalism

        • humans are better than everything and if they cause an issue they can fix it with technology

    • ecological moderation:

      • ecology is intertwined within every aspect of our lives such as:

        • politically

        • economically

        • composting

        • recycling

        • more one health advocacy and actions

          • its become cool to be green 😉

      • industrial ecology

        • industries: progress via retooling/ revisiting issues such as LRaD waste

        • they buried everything in 55 gallon barrels

        • opportunities/inneficiancies

          • prof gave example of switching from round barrels to bury LRaD waste to compacting waste and putting it insquare containers and saved the company 1 million dollars and more

  • Global scale of ecological modernization

    • MOL problems are global so global agreements best address them

    • ISO 14000 standards

    • Montreal Protocol

    • Kyoto Protocol

  • these ovements requires political shifts

    • questioning ecological modernization

      • primary criticism of modernization

      • overly optimistic?

      • how has it changed over the years?

      • limited succsess

    • What about the US?

  • Dialougue of enviromental concern

    • has to connect natural consciance,democracy,physical/material state of the world

When we try to create a definition for nature and its behaviors, would it be an issue of overgeneralization?

Human nature of nature

  • powerful human concept

    • dangerous concept

    • free will?

    • centralist position

    • nature → essentialist beliefs& isms/inequalities

    • moral holism

    • moral separatism

      • moral value as contrast and connection (whether we think of ourselves as living in nature or just a part of nature

      • power and interest

        • ancient problem

      • Aristotle

        • natural and non-natural

        • non natural→ humans made it

        • natural→found in nature

        • Humans are a part of nature because what affects nature affects us

        • But at the same time, we have built cities, organizations, and levels of society where we mass-produce everything and make a lot of unnatural things

  • Daoists and moral connection

    • natural=clear moral contrast between good and bad

      • dubious moral claim

      • wilderness as natural

        • true goal?

        • untraveled untouched

        • however since a lot of wilderness is set aside to be untouched, it is not free from human interferance

    • images of nature

      • social selection

        • aspects of nature that we select

      • social reflection

        • That is how we understand society by reflecting back on society itself

  • Can there be a moral realm that is truly free of social interest?

  • Can there be a natural realm that is truly free of social interests

  • Naturalizing capitalism

    • Based on darwins theory of natural selection

      • survival of the fittest

        • massive diversity/division of labor

        • competition for reproductive success

        • link between new species and new eco niches

  • nature and scientific racism

    • essentialism

      • Mortons craniometry

        • Differences in skull imprints determine races and personality traits

  • Environment as a social construct

    • Realism

      • objective external truth

    • post modernism

      • as many truths as there are people

    • Social construction