Ecology
- Created by: Han
- Created on: 20-03-13 14:43
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- Ecology
- Theories of how living organisms relate with their environmnet
- Ecologists agree human action is degrading the environment
- Core split
- Shallow
- Substential changes can be made
- working through existing institutions to produce specific measures that will protect the environment
- Still possible to bring economic expansion that is environmentally sustainable
- possible to bring economic growth without harming the environment
- possible to bring economic growth without harming the environment
- Put human needs as a priority
- Anthropcentric
- Substential changes can be made
- Deep
- Humans are part of a complex natural environmnet, no priority
- eco-sentric
- Only a complet transformation of human society can save the natural environment from complete collapse
- human consumption levels have to contract drastically to make environmental survival possible
- Humans are part of a complex natural environmnet, no priority
- Shallow
- there are a number of varients that are derrived from other ideologies
- conservative ecology is usually backward looking pastorilism
- rejecting industrial society in favor of a romantic view of a 'golden age'
- eco-socialism, eco-anarchism and eco-feminism are all radical in content
- deriving from the transformative aspects of their core ideologies, they all tend to blame industrial captialism for environmental degradation
- They all argue that a fundamental transofmation of society in line with the central objectives of their ideologies is necessary for enviro survival
- conservative ecology is usually backward looking pastorilism
- deriving from the transformative aspects of their core ideologies, they all tend to blame industrial captialism for environmental degradation
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