Environment & Climate Change

Question 1

Anthropocene

Answer 1

Geological error by human action

Question 2

Ecological footprint

Answer 2

Human pressure on the planet

Question 3

Material lens

Answer 3

How consumption, economy, technology, population and Healy shape environmental conditions

Question 4

Ideal lens

Answer 4

How culture, ideology, morals and social experience influence how we think about the environment

Question 5

Social construction of wilderness

Answer 5

Dualistic vision in which humans are outside the natural
The Sublime- romantic conception of awesome landscape
The Frontier- remaining wild places, vestiges of original all frontier

Question 6

Environmental justice movement

Answer 6

End using poor/racial minority areas for dumping grounds

Question 7

Climate justice

Answer 7

Climate change relates to global inequality

-> differing contributions to the problem (negative externality)

Question 8

Explanation of environmental injustice

Answer 8

Economic- industry, unintentional discrimination
Sociopolitical- industry wants path of least resistance
Racial discrimination - history, side effect of discrimination

Question 9

Buycotting

Answer 9

Excess buying of a brand or product to counteract something else

Question 10

Constructivist analysis

Answer 10

Ideology and knowledge in understanding environmental issues
Wilderness is social construction
Interpret problems