Coming into ENVS 160, I did not know what to expect. I had always found issues of the environment to be fascinating because of their provocative and widespread effects, yet I had no idea what to do about these issues. After this class, I still don’t know what to do, these issues are bigger than I […]
Archives for April 2015
The Problem of Awareness Lacking Action
A recent, concerning trend that was prevalent in our discussion of lawns last week and bottled water and french fries this week is that people choose to engage in these risky and generally undesirable activities even when completely aware of the risks they possess to the environment or the individual. We discussed how, in studies, […]
French Fries – Resouces
There are 19 ingredients in McDonalds French Fries – The Washington Post This article examines McDonalds marketing strategy to advertise the ingredients found in their french fries. Ferdman suggests that most people going to McDonalds are not concerned with their health when eating there and that McDonalds taking the enjoyment out of fast food by providing […]
The Importance of a Political Economy Perspective
Something that stands out to me is that all of the objects of concern this week and two of the three from last week have discussed the object from a political economy perspective. I did not expect this just from reading the perspectives in the previous section, and political economy seemed more interested in pointing […]
Rhetoric, Rights, and Constructions
This week’s discussions of objects of concern presented several, difficult, multifaceted problems. Everyone could find something of interest to relate to and talk about resulting in some interesting conversations. We began this week with Carbon Dioxide, and one idea that stuck out for me was the use of green rhetoric. Deliberately calling CO2 a type of […]