GWS 3350: Gender, Media and Popular Culturesjg/class/3350/earth.pdfHow have your beliefs evolved...

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Dr. Sarah GWS 3350: Gender, Media and Popular Culture

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Earth is our Sacred Mother story: She is the source of ourbirth and nurture. Her care is a sacred responsibility of allhumanity. She is beyond price and not for sale. Her rights mustcome before all other rights.

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actually—Benjamin Franklin!

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actually—Benjamin Franklin!Dr. Sarah GWS 3350: Gender, Media and Popular Culture

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Sacred Money and Markets story: Time is money. Money iswealth. Making money creates wealth and is a definingpurpose of individuals, business, and the economy. Affluentlifestyles are a fair and just reward for effort and contribution.

1 What evidence do you see of these 2 stories in the mediaand popular culture?

2 Who and what helped shape your personal belief systemabout your relationships to other living organisms and theearth? How have your beliefs evolved over the years?

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Sacred Money and Markets story: Time is money. Money iswealth. Making money creates wealth and is a definingpurpose of individuals, business, and the economy. Affluentlifestyles are a fair and just reward for effort and contribution.

1 What evidence do you see of these 2 stories in the mediaand popular culture?

2 Who and what helped shape your personal belief systemabout your relationships to other living organisms and theearth? How have your beliefs evolved over the years?

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Sacred Life and Living Earth story: We humans areliving beings born of and nurtured by a Living Earth. Realwealth is living wealth. Time is life. Money is just a numberuseful as a medium of exchange in well-regulated markets.The purpose of human institutions—whether business,government, or civil society—is to provide all people withthe opportunity to make a healthy, meaningful living in abalanced co-productive relationship with Earth’scommunity of life.

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Impacts of a Gendered Earth?Does a female earth help or hurt the environmentalmovement? What about when the female is a mother?

“When Mother Earth Rises Up: Anthropomorphizing NatureReduces Support for Natural Disaster Victims,” by SimonaSacchi, Paolo Riva, and Marco Brambilla, Social Psychology44 (2015), 271–277.

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Impacts of a Gendered Earth?Does a female earth help or hurt the environmentalmovement? What about when the female is a mother?

“When Mother Earth Rises Up: Anthropomorphizing NatureReduces Support for Natural Disaster Victims,” by SimonaSacchi, Paolo Riva, and Marco Brambilla, Social Psychology44 (2015), 271–277.