Lecture 11Outline of Last Lecture I. Rethinking Universals of Nature and Environmentalism Outline of Current Lecture II. Rethinking Universals of Nature and Environmentalism cont. Current LectureGeographies of Global Interconnection-Relations of power- Making of environmentalismGlobal: World problems that affect everyone; interconnected and international- Everything is happening everywhere in the same way- “Scale” of analysiso Relative size or extent (of the problem)o Relative measure-one scale meaningful in relation to another- Examples:o Body/individualo Family/homeo Local/communityo City/urbano Region (country)o Nationo Region (world) o Globe/planet- All of these things go from the individual all the way to the global- Look up the Pacific garbage dump/patch- When you look at things from different scales, you get different understandings of the problemsGlobal is a scale for approaching/evaluating/understanding social and environmental issues- It’s a way of imagining the world and our relation to it. These imaginings have implications for how we perceive social and environmental issues.Global processes: Take place on a larger scale than global- Cole and Foster: Think about how problems of scale affect our environmento When we think of environmental/global issues, what do we think about? Global warming, pollution, land fills, ozone layer, garbage washing up GEOG 3 1st Editiono We don’t talk about the problems poor people and workers face everydayo Environmental pollution in large metropolitan areas near waste processing facilities has affectedgroups adversely Residents of inner cities (poor and colored) Workerso Environmental injustice: disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on poor people, marginalized groups, and people of coloro Environmental racism: disproportionate impact of environmental hazards of people of coloro Structural racism/injustice: system of social structures that produces cumulative, durable inequalitieso Ex: Cerrell Report (1984): People in these areas have lower educational attainment and less politically active, less resistance, matter of practicality. o Lara Pulido: Why are some communities in L.A. not comparably burdened with pollution? How did whites and new middle-class people of color distance themselves from industrial pollution? o Kettleman City- L.A. Times Clip, Farming community in Central Californiao Environmental justice: Achieving equity and a fair sharing of environmental burdens and