ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Earth Trust, David Korten, Ecological Crisis

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

Lecture 5 - guest: what is education for. The 3 stories: industrial growth: business as usual. Ecological crisis and environmental challenges are normal. Capitalism, consumer paradise innovative technology solve all the env problems. Higher education is that we can adequately restore that which we have dismantled. Aka. everyone should be like us, we should have faith in the system the purpose of education is that of giving you the means for upward mobility and success. With enough knowledge manage the earth. Trust system and geoengineering will fix all the problem (e. g. electric cars, carbon capture etc) E. c. in year 180 ancient rome produces on average 809, since ww2, economy growth has increased income 6. 5 x 10 28. Can higher education restore what western approaches to knowledge have dismantled. What of infinite knowledge of particular, concern places. Is ecoliteracy simply a green form of scientific literacy. The great turning - another world is possible.