obscures the issue of Black fungibility and reduces Blackness to a mere tool of settlement

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.

Our supportive families saw to it that we accessed good health care and received educations suitable to our talents and interests.

included a significant move more toward electricvehicles and the addition of 9,000 jobs to become the world leader in electricvehicles

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.

also to receive significant governmental subsidies setaside for low emissions vehicles

graduate students from West Virginia University

Climate Change

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.

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?

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

gaming is one of them but so is the coal industry

“social” and “psycho-cultural”

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

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

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

small nudges can get consumers to reducetheir energy consumption,

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

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

storage

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

challenging the reductive logic of techno-fixes

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

subject to the limits of corporate self-regulation

the importance ofassigning private property rights

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.

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

deeply problematic commodification of everything

long‐run interest

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.

“business” as a whole cannot be said to have responsibilities

energy infrastructure in a broader trajectory of racist governmental neglect

Energy with a capital “E”

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

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

relationships between humansand the non-human world areconceived, valued, managed

Nature – intoa provider of services for humans.

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

Decisions have to be made by consensus in each chamber, then by consensus in the steering board

forest certification has had only limited effect in halting deforestation due to its predominant application in the global North

Competition promotesthe technological dynamism and enormous productivity gainsthat could underwrite a more just and sustainable society.

ursued symbolic capitalthrough alliances with the academy.

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

“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”

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

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

industrial forms of harm

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

what is at stakehere

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

aging physical plants

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.

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

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

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

Regulation theory

environmental policy, or the growth of aneco-industry