readings Flashcards
What did Graeme Wynn mean by “Paint the Map Red” ?
explains the move of europens to canada, expanding industry, shows the negative relations between colonial development and the environment.
expanding the British territory - red jackets
What is the myth of the Ecological Indian?
the idea that the Americas were untouched and the land was a utopia filled with harmonious people and animals and an abundance of resources.
What is the pyrocene? ( Video)
a new epoch where homo sapiens discovered how to use fire - human caused fire on the earth
is an alternative term for the Anthropocene
In Wynn’s “Nature and Nation” Why are the terms “deep time” and “Big History “ problematic for explaining Canadian History
because people migrated through the laurentian and cordilleran ice sheets, was not developed as a country until the 17th century when Europeans came.
What does “survival in a garrison” mean? (Wynn ‘Introduction”)
Everything is connected in the environment
how people viewed the environment as a threat, had to survive it instead of living in it and benefiting from it.
in “Eldorado North” why is the economy more important than ecology?
Emerging markets prioritized profits instead of Ecological Balance
Technological advances accelerated the decline of the fisheries, fur trade and bison
In “Back to the Land” in the Nature of Canada, what are some of Coates’s key aspects of Agrarianism in Canadian History?
Indigenous people lost land, got sick from European livestock diseases, and were displaced.
farmers removed forests to plant crops
there was an introduction to exotic species - portmanteau biota
people wanted to escape the cities and move out to the country to make profit from farms
