ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Herbicide, Jacob Bronowski, Precautionary Principle
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Science can be wrong: alachor a herbicide created by monsanto. To be released in canada it had to be investigated by our epa looking after the welfare of. As women entered the scientific community the research was looked at through a different lens men looked only at the male baboons: turned out that all members of a troop were working for cohesion. When science is used inappropriately by politicians in the environmental decision-making process: daniel sarewitz his work found. The nature of the natural world itself is not properly understood fact. What is the role of worldviews in environmental thought: natural world is too complex to possibly fully understood too many variables / non-linear web of interactions. The diverse ways in which science approaches nature is not clear to politicians o ask a geologist : ask an atmospheric scientist o.
