Lecture 25 Flashcards
How is framing important for over consumption?
Efficiency
Sufficiency
Efficiency
Reducing environmental impacts by improving energy and resource use in production processes
Sufficiency
Challenge current consumption levels and lifestyle choices
Why are so few people taking any sort of action about climate change ?
● Fossil fuel industry influence on government policy
● The tactics of climate skeptic campaigns
● Distortion of climate science through the ‘balance as bias phenomenon’ in journalism
Why are so few people taking any sort of action about climate change ?
● Cognitive dissonance
People stopped paying attention to global climate change when they realized that there is no easy solution for it
More info they get on it, more hopeless it is
What is Political economy?
the study of the social relations,
particularly the power relations, that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources.
Norway is biggest producer of oil outside the middle east (their main export, rely on this)
- Cannot divorce it from oil industry
‘Strategies of denial’
What are ‘Stock stories’ about national identities?
Stereotypes / ideas about people
ex. Norway: Humble, hardworking and nature loving people
‘Strategies of denial’
What is ‘Perspectival selectivity’?
Minimize Norwegian responsibility for the
problem of global warming by pointing to the Larger impact of the United States on carbon dioxide emissions,
● Stressing that Norway has been a relatively poor nation in the past,
● Emphasizing the nation’s small population size
● ‘Denial of self-involvement’
‘Strategies of denial’
What is Claim to virtue?
Trade in emissions on account of emission
reduction
Basically outsourcing all your pollution to poorer countries to look like you’re better
What does:
“We are socialized into different “thought
communities””
Mean?
‘Without being told what to think about (or what not to think about), and without being punished for “knowing” the wrong things, societies arrive at unwritten agreements about what can be publically remembered and acknowledged’
How is Privilege a factor in environmental justice?
Environmental and social justice problems are increasingly distant in time or space or both. (might not face devastating consequences)
● In Norway: future environmental impact and immediate economic benefit
● Benefit by avoiding the emotional and
psychological entanglement and identity conflicts that may arise from knowing that one is doing ‘the wrong thing’
Who does Ecological crises impact the most?
Ecological crises impact poor and vulnerable populations more severely
● Exposure to environmental hazards is stratified
● Environmental risk increases inequality, AND inequality increases environmental risk
Ex. poorer families living by nuclear reactor
Who is responsible for almost half of global carbon emissions?
The global top 10% are responsible
for almost half of global carbon emissions and the global top 1% of emitters are
responsible for more emissions than the entire bottom half of the world’s population
What does Concentrated disadvantage mean in accordance with environmental justice?
The poorest and most racially segregated
communities suffer the most from environmental risk
