In high school, I remember first learning of communist theory. I was taught that it was one of those things that were good in theory, but bad in practice, because it only required one person to want more than their fair share. Climate change and the ability to change its course reminds me of the same thing. Mitigating climate change… Read more »
By now, nearly the entire human population is in agreement that anthropogenic climate change is a very real threat to our way of existence. Most individuals are aware of corporations’ multi-million dollar efforts to hush the truth surrounding global climate change. Alongside these corporations, we have politicians that actively deny the severity and truth behind climate change. Most individuals with… Read more »
Consequences of climate change that affect people’s day to day lives are more likely to pressure governments to address climate change more seriously. One of these more “real” consequences is an increase and exacerbation of forest fires. Because forest fires destroy property and injure and kill people it is important to make a distinct connection between increases in forest fires… Read more »
As of 2017, there are estimated to be 7.6 billion people on Earth (World Population, 2017). In 1999, the world was celebrating(?) the birth of the six billionth person. (Sommerfeld, 1999). It is unthinkable to me that nearly 2 billion people have been added to the planet since I was born in 1998. The statistic becomes more surreal considering that… Read more »
Source: https://poodyheads.wordpress.com/tag/climate-change-deniers/ What can we conclude from the cartoons above? Before taking the Political Ecology of Death class, I would have simply laughed at the cartoons and moved on. But now, I cannot agree with the intentions of the cartoonists. Climate change is associated with various kinds of physical, cultural, and cognitive deaths. Death of a place with emotional attachment,… Read more »
Only solidarity can bring about the radical changes needed to free ourselves from an authoritarian future and deliver us to a planetary politics, where “our existence is neither international nor global, but planetary,” (Burke, 504).
If a plate breaks, it will not hop up and repair itself magically. This sounds like common sense, but without entropy this may not have been the case. Entropy is the decay and disorder which inevitably happens in any closed system. The universe tends towards entropy, it wants to be in a state of disarray. Entropy is irreversible, and establishes… Read more »
An issue that is extremely prevalent in the United States regarding the environment is environmental racism. A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that people of color are far more likely to live near polluters and to be exposed to polluted air. This study focused on something called particulate matter, “a group of both natural and manmade microscopic… Read more »
We all know how we think it will go. Or, we all know how Hollywood thinks that it will go. The great post-apocalyptic wasteland! A desert, or perhaps even an ocean as far as the eye can see, buildings crumbling under their disuse. Maybe there are zombies. Some global catastrophe has taken place, which the audience is never fully privy… Read more »
As individuals in this living system of the Anthropocene era, where most of the human population is living in denials by “ignoring or downplay […] evidences in many way [by] not engaging in conversations aobut issues [and] allow ourselves to be diverted by consumerism and infotainment” (Dixon) How do we as individuals, as students can navigate ourselves to take action… Read more »