Geo Midterm - Gwen
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- Agnatology
- induced ignorance about environmental degradation, globalization, social injustice, and exploitation through misleading scientific knowledge/findings.
- Epistemology
- Using knowledge to make decisions.
- Paradigm
- framework through which to understand arguments and facts.
- COP 15
- 15th UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (Conference of the Parties); not legally enforceable; countries submit an emissions reduction target.
- Thomas Malthus/Malthusian thought
- linear growth of food and resources + exponential population growth of humans= doom. Untrue because land can produce higher quantities with modern industrial agriculture, plus rates of fertility decrease as development, education for women, and family planning increase.
- IPCC
- International Panel on Climate Change: scientific, intergovernmental body that assesses climate change and its consequences on a global scale.
- Secular catastrophism
- understanding and explaining disasters in the contexts of secular factors. (Haiti earthquake because of deal with the devil?)
- Discourse
- framework through which to understand a contestable issue; particular way of representing the "West", the rest, and relations between them.
- Hurricane Katrina
- example of poor local, national, and federal disaster planning; death from exhaustion, thirst, violence; people are still waiting for promised government money; environment: affected coastline habitats, caused erosion, sent toxic sewage into living spaces and ocean.
- 9th ward
- area flooded by levee and floodwall failure; infrastructure damage due to mold, canal water, sewage; received most damage.
- Global south
- characterized by a lack of development; previously colonized countries; in need of international aid.
- 1st vs 3rd world
- 3rd world created by 1st world colonization in 1800s (British in India); global capitalism allows for exploitation of resources in developing nations.
- Environmental discourse
- how we speak about and understand the environment.
- Ideology
- our beliefs shaping the way we think and evaluate ideas and concepts.
- Limits to growth
- population growth is limited by availability of food, standard of living, space.
- Carbon emissions
- greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change; come from vehicles, burning fossil fuels and organic materials, and industrial activity.
- Political economy of debt
- relationships between developed and developing countries are complex.
- Private property
- privatization of natural resources allows entrance to the market and control over distribution; still subject to government regulation, but more free to act on individual motives.
- Global environmental commons
- no ownership of oceans or atmosphere; pollution into atmosphere and oceans is unregulated; do we have a right to exploit resources?
- GHGs
- Greenhouse gases; NOx, SOx, CFCs; emitted from industry