As I reflect on colonialism, pollution, and productivity, I am struck by how interconnected these forces are and how their impacts still determine the world we live in today. First, colonialism was as much a quest to conquer land as to extract resources and exploit labor to fuel systems of production (that privileged profit over […]
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Many times, while I attempt to conceptualize waste, I limit my understanding to throwing away the parts no longer useful to me anymore, whether it’s a food item that’s expired or the useless packaging it’s come in. However, I’ve come to continually realize that waste should be evaluated from more than one angle, as sometimes
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After our discussions this week, I have come to realize that the notion of “waste” is not a neutral one; rather, it is an inherently loaded term, carrying the weight of historical power dynamics and skewed value judgments. How did we reach a point where whole ecosystems, such as rivers, become mere “sinks” for our
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