ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intensive Animal Farming, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, Peak Oil
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Es101 lecture 4: we do not know" something until we understand how the knowledge will impact society and people in the real world. E. g. companies divesting from a production plant economists know the bottom line but do they know that the town will collapse: the importance of minute particulars". Indoor classrooms teach us that learning is passive we are lectured at and must memorize information instead of going out into the world to observe: we are taught lessons without actually being taught. We need to educate students with a wider breadth of subjects. Knowledge of one"s self in their place separate the should do" from the can do". Animals, food and the environment: the hidden cost of factory farms. Ilo (intensive livestock operation) in the rest of the world / in canada; cafo (concentrated. Ghg emissions: associated sources from factory farms; transportation, methane gas from farting, often discounted sources; respiration, land use.
