AGENDA
- Politeness
- Midterm study guide at tab above
- Kinship disruption
- Water reports
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Politeness
- Please speak to others politely. Be nice, be respectful, even if you disagree.
- Please also listen to others politely. Give them your full attention and respect.
- Please also speak about others politely. This pertains to speaking about groups of people that come up because of our course topics.
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Three views about environmental injustice
- Environmental racism
- Principle of commensurate benefits and burdens
- Kinship disruption
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Whyte
- Kinship relations involve reciprocity: A gives B gifts, B gives back to A
- Indigenous people see as kin (examples in Whyte): corn, potatoes, plants generally, buffalo, salmon, rivers, mountains, nature generally
- Environmental injustice = kinship disruption
- Rectifying the injustice = restoring kinship
Restoring kinship
- Buffalo example (US) -- restoration of kinship with buffalo through recreating herds and hunting
- Uluru example (Australia) -- indigenous Anangu people reclaim the rock
- Later we will discuss -- reclaiming US national parks
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- What's the water issue?
- Is it an environmental justice issue?
- Environmental Racism
- Principle of commenensurate burdens and benefits
- Kinship disruption
- Is another kind of environmental wrong involved?
- mistreatment of people (generally)
- mistreatment of plants, animals, ecosystems
- causing species extinction
- tragedy of the commons
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We may look at --
Aquifer articles--
NYT, US aquifers
NYT, global aquifers
US water laws -- see "absolute dominion" for Texas law -- aka "rule of capture" -- if you own the land you have a right to the water below your land -- stricter regulations in New Mexico
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