8 page essay due 4.13
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“Most people are eagerly groping for some medium, some way in which they can bridge the gap between their morals and their practices.” –Saul Alinksy, Rules for Radicals
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Dominant Discourses
Stories about the world and how it works.
George Marshall: cause, effect, perpetrator, motive.
Economic growth/capitalism
It positions economic growth as the principal goal of society (and economic self-interest as the core goal of individuals, governments and corporations).
Economic growth is equated with human progress, prosperity and well-being.
Metrics such as GDP, stock market indices and consumer confidence are positioned as signs of social well-being.
Criticism of economic growth is unthinkable/nonsensical within this discourse.
Limits to growth
Nature is a finite system that has limits: limited natural resources to exploit, and eco-systems have a finite tolerance for absorbing waste and pollution.
Our capacity to survive depends on living within limits imposed by nature.
Limits to Growth was originally published in 1972. It was exceptionally successful, and remains one of the best- selling environmental titles ever published. However it had limited impact on government policy.
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Ecological Modernization
A comprehensive transformation of dominant economic and political institutions is required, but it can be achieved within existing structures of capitalist political economy and liberal democracy.
Sustainability depends upon choosing appropriate technologies and models of economic growth.
A ‘green’ economy will replace old (fossil-fuel based) ‘brown’ capitalism with new (renewable energy-based) ‘green’ capitalism.
Green radicalism
Green radicalism advances a variety of critical perspectives asserting that a radical transformation in contemporary society is required to achieve genuine sustainability. They assert a fundamental incompatibility between capitalism (consumerism, economic growth, socio-economic inequality), technological rationality, patriarchy, institutionalized racism, colonialism on the one hand, and ecological (and social) well-being on the other hand.
Green consciousness: an anthropomorphic conception of humans as separate from and superior to nature, capable of controlling it to serve our needs, must be replaced by an ecocentric/biospheric conception of human beings and nature as deeply interconnected and interdependent.
Green politics/economics: dominant institutions and structures of power must be transformed. In particular, the principal driver of ecological crisis is a capitalist system that relentlessly subordinates all human activity and natural eco-systems to the maximization of profit.
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Who/what should ‘solve’ the problem
All discourses offer up a set of actors to address crisis.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/wet-suwet-en-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-1.5448363
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https://nowtoronto.com/news/trans-canada-pipeline-first-nations-bc/
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CBC disables comments on indigenous stories
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It’s about land
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Oka
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Gustafsen Lake…
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Elsipogtog
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Elsipogtog
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/4w7ymm/did-the-rcmp-just-ambush-a-peaceful-native-anti-fracking-protest
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Wet’suwet’en Territory
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Burnaby Mountain
Grand Chief Stewart Philip
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Autumn Peltier at the UN
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Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (1997)
Established Duty to Consult as a principle in all Crown land uses.
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2014 – Tsilhqot’in Decision – BC Supreme Court recognizes traditional territory
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Taiaiake Alfred
“Decolonization, to make the point again, is a process of discovering the truth in a world created out of lies.” (Wasase)
Leanne Simpson
“A resurgence of Indigenous political cultures, governances and nation-building requires generations of Indigenous peoples to grow up intimately and strongly connected to our homelands, immersed in our languages and spiritualities, and embodying our traditions of agency, leadership, decision-making and diplomacy. This requires a radical break from state education systems – systems that are primarily designed to produce communities of individuals willing to uphold settler colonialism.” (Land as Pedagogy).
Glen Coulthard
“For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die. And for capitalism to die, we must actively participate in the construction of Indigenous alternatives to it.” (For Our Nations to Live Capitalism Must Die)
Jack Forbes
“Wetiko is a Cree term (windego in Ojibway, wintiko in Powhatan) which refers to a cannibal or, more specifically, to an evil person or spirit who terrorizes other creatures by means of terrible evil acts, including cannibalism. Wetikowatisewin, an abstract noun, refers to ‘diabolical wickedness or cannibalism.’” I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.” (Columbus and Other Cannibals).
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Water Protectors
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