In Eric T. Freyfogle’s “Notes on Environmental Justice”, Eric concludes the piece by talking about how environmental justice movements may make our environmental issues worse by misinterpreting natural systems as being contained and controlled by humans. This is to say that the human perspective of nature as being in some ways transcendental is problematic for […]
In Ha-Joon Chang’s book, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism, the author explores the misleading nature of the free market and its underlying regulatory boundaries. Ha-Joon talks about how we miss these restrictions because of the moral values behind them that we support. He also discusses the inherent political motivations that primarily influence the […]
With Aldo Leopold’s, A Sand County Almanac in mind, what moral significance should we assign animals if any and how could this assigning of significance lead to a more permanent existence for humanity within ecosystems as a whole? In Aldo Leopold’s, A Sand County Almanac, we find an intimate series of stories relating the exploits of […]
Lynn White, Jr.’s deconstruction of our ecological predicament and Donald Worster’s response both strive to establish a reason for our current preference as a society (at least in the systemic sense) to commodify nature as a tool of instrumental value. With these readings in mind, what motivators allowed for the commodification of nature by humans and […]