ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Degradation, Migratory Birds Convention Act, Yosemite National Park
21 Jan 2018
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Compare the general attitudes towards the environment as observed for the first nations and european settlement. Land ownership: saw themselves as, took over all the part of land not owners of it land. Relationships: saw nature as cyclic and renewable, extensive knowledge of environment and its needs, moderate knowledge, knew information about using environments recourses but not to take care of it. Renewability: used all of the resources they could, saw nature as cyclic and renewable, treated environment well and took care of it, reused everything they could and didn"t take more then they needed. Economy: lifestyle that, used resources to depended on the sustainable use of wild resources generate wealth (money) Some research suggests that not all early societies experienced a positive relationship with the environment. Environmental degradation also occurred in early societies and similarly some settlers were greener than others.
