Chapter 12 Flashcards
Modernism✅
- order, universal truth, reason, and rationality
- by using science and rationality to establish truths, and organize society Can Emerge
Consumerism✅
 -poses a challenge to liberal principles as it is very significant impact on our lives and the planet
-focusses on buying wants not needs
The Kyoto protocol✅
An agreement reached at an international convention at which world leaders met to discuss the climate change and create a plan for reducing greenhouse gases
Postmodernism✅
Attack everything agree with everything, ever idea is valid so no idea is valid
Extremism✅
-something outside of what the main worlds feel okay
 environmentalism✅
-The industrialization and consumerism model of capitalism is unsustainable
- questions to believe that all progress is possible
- values the collective well-being of the environment over consumer sovereignty
Indigenous perspective✅
Challenges individual rights and freedoms because value is based upon cooperative and collective decisionmaking, focusses on egalitarianism
Admired by Jean- jacques-Rousseau