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Mega Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Once a society has entered the 'age of high mass consumption" there will increase welfare and security benefits for the general population.
        
        This leads to the issue of how capital is acquired, which traditionally was through land ownership and use
        
        Ricardo/Marx
        
        Ricardo argues that land has "original and indestructible powers" beyond just what it can be used for
        
        If all land were the same (same quantity and quality) there would be no use to charge rent since any given piece of land would not yield a particular advantage to the individual who cultivates it
        
        However, since land does have different qualities it can be designated by people as useful or not useful, therefore making the concept of rent appealing to those who wish to capitalize further on their initial investment in the land
        
        Rent is also built upon the concept that one section of society must produce the necessary goods/services for all of society
        
        Rent grows (along with land value) because of social development due to social labor
        
        Those who supply this surplus labor are then forced to be satisfied with lower than average profits as land quality diminishes
        
        Surplus labor (labor supplied by the remainder of the working class) is what the concept of rent is built upon
  - - - Growth strategies encompass policies and arrangements aimed at bolstering growth
        
        Traditionally, such policies disregard human/cultural and environmental impacts
- - - - Disbelief, denial, double life
        
        Disbelief: Difficulty with grasping the dangers surrounding us
        
        Denial: Dismissing the notion that things are as bad as they really are
        
        Double life: We tend to just keep living as though nothing has changed, even though things have changed
      - Fears can hold us captive until we break through those feelings with those of empowerment
        
        Positive disintegration: "To experience pain as we register what is happening to our world is a measure of our evolution as open systems"
  - - - "a comprehensive framework for characterizing ecological dynamics and resolving environmental problems."
        
        Question of who is perceiving nature, how is one perceiving nature, and what is perceived as nature
        
        An ecology of perspectives is needed, combination of insights
        and approaches and methods from the 200 perspectives of the natural world
- - - - consumerist culture
        
        Current society wastes and restricts productivity through the need for constant material gain
        
        Pacification of existence-goal: "productivity under self-determined
        incentives" (240).
        
        The idea that civilization provides the opportunity to free nature from brutality and suffering but we consistently misuse nature
        
        Notion of "uncivilization": Kingsnorth and Hine of The Dark Mountain Project
        
        Breaking from traditional models of growth
        
        Latouche: Farewell to Growth
        
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        Myth of progress: we're destined for greatness
        
        Founded on the myth of nature: greatness is cost-free
        
        Civilization is not only fragile, but can unravel extremely quickly.
        
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- - - - Notion of the death project: colonizers brought this to conquered lands through the exploitation of others to accumulate wealth
        
        Original ideas of human rights and development are linked to Eurocentric secular rationality (7).
        
        This leads directly back to the guiding question: if development was always based upon the wants and needs of colonizers, then how can there ever be sustainable development for all?
      - Colonialism: resulted in racism, patriarchy, and capitalism
      - Bad faith: choosing to believe and defend comfortable lies about others and oneself.
    - - Notion of inalienable Human Rights: rights all human beings possess just because they are human by nature.
        
        Human rights have gained a status that is separate from political interests.
        
        Is this actually true? Or will the growth provided from capitalism sometimes outweigh human costs?
        
        Contradiction between rights for self and responsibility towards others
        
        Comes down to the divide between those who right wrongs and those who are wronged by others.