Author Question: Of the following people, who would be more likely than the others to be attracted to or to convert ... (Read 27 times)

nummyann · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Of the following people, who would be more likely than the others to be attracted to or to convert to a new religious movement?

a. Jorge, who dropped out of high school and works sporadically as a laborer
b. Lydia, who has never considered herself to be religious but who enjoyed studying world religions in college
c. Manny, who was born into a somewhat poor but very religious family
d. Sasha, who enjoys driving customers to and from religious services in his taxi but who has never completely understood what religion is all about

Question 2

Discuss Allan Schnaiberg's assessment of the uncontrolled destruction of the environment as an essential feature of the contemporary economic system. What is the end result of his treadmill of production?

What will be an ideal response?

Toya9913 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Allan Schnaiberg forcefully advanced this perspective through his concept of the treadmill of production. While one of the principles of ecology is balance and a tendency toward equilibrium, such as when a forest fire clears out the underbrush so that new trees can grow, the pursuit of profit tends toward disequilibrium. The basis of capitalism is continued economic expansionmeasured in profits, market shares, gross domestic product, and so on. Producers, laborers, and governments all share an interest in growing the economy by increasing production and consumption. Doing so, of course, entails the consumption of more energy and the production of more pollution. Thus, economic expansion increases wealth, but at the expense of the environment. Schnaiberg argued that the treadmill of production helps ensure business's profits by externalizing the environmental costs of their activities to the poor and the powerless, meaning that economic growth also increases environmental inequality.