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  1. Oct 2023
  2. Apr 2023
    1. Sandy called out their assumption: that her condition was inherently inferior—a point they took as self-evident despite the fact that an estimated 24 percent of people worldwide are carriers for genetic conditions.

      and who decides what is "genetic condition"?

  3. Nov 2022
    1. While many analysts felt that the restructuring and job cuts should have been moredrastic, CEO Mu ̈ ller had to balance the political influences with decisions that wereactually feasible.

      "were actually feasible" why?

    1. Indigenous and non-In-digenous supporters have, among other actions, staged a series of railway,bridge, and highway blockades across Canada, strategically disrupting infra-structural choke points to slow the day-to-day circulation of goods, people,and, capital.

      labor/capital literal disruption of capitalism

    1. Native Americans have seen the end of their respective worlds... Just asimportantly, though, Indians survived the apocalypse. This raises the further question, then,of what happens to a society that has gone through an apocalyptic event?

      Trauma

    2. climate change as a strategic opportunity notonly for Tribes to retain cultural practices and return traditional management practices tothe landscape, but for all land managers to remedy inappropriate ecological actions, and forenhanced and successful collaboration in the face of collective survival

      similar to language loss (murder may be a better word?) - Many tribes were prompted by the near loss of their native languages to preserve them and there has been a significant increase in both retaining languages that exist and teaching them to youth.

    3. Or they can throw Indigenous peoples into bureaucraticprocesses of emergency management in which Indigenous peoples’ voices are silenced bystates, corporations, and local governments.

      BIA land management practices - payment for land use/sale

    4. Indigenous peoples, for example, are already among the first “climate refugees” in regionssuch as the Arctic or Pacific where sea-level rise is occurring. 3

      slow violence

    5. WhileIndigenous peoples, as any society, have long histories of adapting to change, colonialismcaused changes at such a rapid pace that many Indigenous peoples became vulnerable toharms

      what was the driver of this acceleration? capitalism - the commodification of everything?

  4. Oct 2022
    1. The Trump administration withdrew this estimate by executive order and forbid agencies from usingthe underlying research for regulatory purposes;

      how to progress under this kind of BS - gov making it impossible to move forward while affecting public health. also during this time period Tump admin forbade the use of certain terms: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based" - all budget related

    2. driving a Ford Focus electric vehicle in a region in which electricityis generated by coal has approximately the same CO2 footprint as a Ford Explorersport utility vehicle that averages 25 miles per gallon, and costs nearly as much

      !!!

    1. West Virginia generates almost all its power from coal, anddespite enjoying historically low electricity rates for decades,industrial electricity costs have risen by seven percent peryear over the last two years.1

      89% vs a nationwide average of 19%: how does this affect those who live there? who lives there?

    1. Climate politics as `My Space' simultaneously operates as a vanity-oriented, virtue politics of self-denial, sacrifice, and neocolonial offsetting, and something that calls into question the freedom-oriented discourse of neoliberal politics.

    2. and state. Both thus attempt to manage individual practice, for a variety of purposes. The carbon market is not so much a distraction from a `real' response, which would involve refocusing the state's practices or challenging the power of capital,

    3. and state. Both thus attempt to manage individual practice, for a variety of purposes. The carbon market is not so much a distraction from a `real' response, which would involve refocusing the state's practices or challenging the power of capital,

    4. this question became particularly acute in the neoliberal era, when dominant ideologies attempted to displace responsibility for all sorts of problems from the state and onto individuals.

    5. the phrase implies the appropriation of climate change for an individual, almost narcissistic subject, who thinks of `his or her emissions' and his or her responsibilities regarding them.

    1. W e are living th ro u g h precisely such a m assive w o rld -w id e relocation rig h t n o w o f theworld’s autom obile, steel, and electronics industries. T hisphenomenon o f relocation has been part and parcel o fhistorical capitalism from th e o u tset

      flint

    1. The polluter pays principle refers to theidea that the polluting Žrm ought to shoulder the costs of pollution or environ-mental damage by including it in the price of a product.

      what is the "price" of pollution and how is it priced?

    1. “freeing” up nature, i.e. detaching it from complex social constraints and placing it under the auspices of the self-regulating market

      detachment from indigenous "place-thought" & colonialism/conquering of nature/people

    1. long‐run interest

      paradigm shift to thinking of long run interest vs short run (profit) - if the earth as source of all wealth then "social responsibility" is investment with great return

    2. What does it mean to say that the corporate executive has a “social responsibility” in his capacity as businessman? If this statement is not pure rhetoric, it must mean that he is to act in some way that is not in the interest of his employers.

      are green choices not in interest of employers?

  5. Sep 2022
    1. they try to take away ourfreedom to manage our resourcesand also because they are not areal solution to the climate changeproblem, on the contrary, they onlymake it worse

      re-colonization?

    2. embraces continuity with, rather thanseparateness between, these realms,and that encourages movementswith, rather than ownership andmanagement over, dynamicecosystem processes

      place-thought

    1. developed primarily by a German consultant who saw a market opening for carbon certification in biofuels following media campaigns in Germany questioning their sustainability

      green capitalism!

    1. the mining industry is de-fended on both economic grounds, in terms of the creationof wealth and employment

      seen in coal country, also in Trump campaign - keep coal industry alive for jobs, etc

    2. “the tobacco industry would like thepublic health tobacco control movement to adopt a harmreduction strategy so that the industry could use it to promoteits alternate nicotine delivery systems that include tobacco”

      This is currently promoted on Phillip-Morris' website "smoke-free by 2025"

    3. Phase 3 cor-porate response often involves the strategic promotion of anideology of “harmony,” including such values as compromiseand responsibility

      "green" business

    4. corporations may inter-nalize those fines as a cost of doing business

      weekly parking ticket better than paying for a garage, cost of having a car yet breaking law/social norm

    5. One example is how the McDonald’s Cor-poration has successfully developed markets in East Asia byconducting research on consumer behavior, demography, andfamily structures and the cultural meanings of food and eating

      exploitation of cultural differences to gain political and economic advantage

    6. corporate power normalizes and naturalizesrisk and harm as inevitable conditions of modernity ratherthan as relationships between corporations, bodies, and en-vironments that can potentially be reorganized and changed

      the paradigm shift required in greening

    7. The politics of res-ignation is a powerful enabler of contemporary capitalismbecause it legitimizes corporate power as either inevitable orlargely immovable

      we spoke about this in class, that sometimes it seems there is no way out of the capitalism box - how do we dismantle something from within with its own tools? not at all?

    1. "a defining feature of the Green New Deal is its identification of a connection between the root causes of the financial crisis (unsustainable debt) and environmental crisis (unsustainable consumption)." (195)

    2. "Ecosystem services are, in essence, the benefits for mankind (e.g. recreation, water regulation, carbon storage, pollination, chemicals with medicinal properties) produced by ecosystems, individual species, and genes" (193)

    3. "improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities" (192)

      green economy promotes wellness for health, earth, finance

    4. "crisis many observers expressed concern that environmental issues would be put on the political backburner, treated as a ‘luxury’ that could be addressed only in times of prosperity" (188)

      opposite of patagonia "sale" in which we consider the earth the source of all wealth

    1. They fear the profits are short lived. The administration’s environmental priorities — as well as rising public and corporate concern about climate change — would make many refineries obsolete in the not-too-distant future.

      profit is too short term for large investment

    2. Oil refineries across the country are being retired and converted to other uses as owners balk at making costly upgrades and America’s pivot away from fossil fuels leaves their future uncertain

      market beginning to shift

    3. firm is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to convert the 1,300-acre site along the Schuylkill River into a green, high-tech campus for e-commerce and life sciences companies

      sustainability of oil < other industry

    1. characterized by an intensi-fied valorization of nature on the one hand, and the economization of eco-logical crisis management on the other

      economization of eco-logical crisis management - developing economic sector created