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• accounting for environmental services and natural assets
• agencies and relief
• Belgian Congo as the first investigative media focus on racism and colonial excess
• centers of domestication in the world
• commons defined
• constraints imposed by physical and biogeographical factors
• Crimes against Nature
• culture, the varied meanings and contexts of the term
• culture -- a culture of reform
• "A group of Dutch workmen called thatchers, re-roof a home with natuve materials." 1990. JVS
• demand
• John Dewey's problem of expert knowledge in a democracy
• economics as a science and a social studu
• ecojustice -- described
• feedback, technical meanings
• German gestalt psychology schematic
• Government (US) links
• Martin Heidegger's criticism of society
• International press
• labor theory of value
• land as a system of value
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee, 1941.
• Reverend Thomas Malthus
• Markets
• Carolyn Merchant's schematic
• NGOs or non-governmental organizations
• National press
• Neil Postman's criticism of media's trivializing of reality
• Postman's deeper critigue of society's reification of ignorance
• population
• poverty
• problem solving
• rhetorical rules
• schematic: two ways to see the economy
• side-effects considered economically
• social stratification in 1990 USA
• social stratification in 2000 USA
• sugar consumption historically
• Susan Sontag on empathy, 2003.
• Taking action
• value preferences and willingness to pay
• wealth in a wider context
• worldview at odds with reality

American environmental history

US Census Bureau (decennial census data)

Population pyramids - dynamic changes

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