LWGC 1

Question 1

what is the cartesian separation of nature

Answer 1

Descartes saw humans as wholly separate from and superior to nature and nonhuman animal

Question 2

what % of people view climate change as a major threat to their country and cite

Answer 2

75%
pew research

Question 3

7 points in what we should put in images for climate outreach

Answer 3

show real people

new stores (ie not polar bears etc)

show CC at scale

show emotionally powerful impacts

understand audience

show local but serious impacts

be careful with protest imagery

Question 4

define environmental determinism

Answer 4

the physical environment (landforms, climate, ecology), determines human culture, socio-economic development as opposed to social factors

Question 5

what does Neo environmental determinism focus on

Answer 5

an inevitable causality between physical environments and societies

Question 6

what is the environmental turn and cite

Answer 6

over the last 20 years geography has become the home of environmental research and discourse

(castree 2015)

Question 7

when was the term tipping point coined

Answer 7

2005

Question 8

4 core modes of thinking globally about climate change

Answer 8

1. analysis of the scale of human activities - capacity
2. understanding earth system dynamics, impacts humans trajectories
3. planetary framing - securisation
4. our imaginaries are made cosmopolitan

Question 9

4 antidotes to the ‘global imaginary’ and cite

(why we should view climate change locally)

Answer 9

• capture place attachments at local scale
• qualitative and quantitative methods capture construction of place
• links attachment, identities and collective action - YIMBY or NIMBY
• greater precision when investigating spatial frames of risk communication

(Devine Wright 2013)