ENSC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aurochs, Tillage, Human Ecology
19 Dec 2015
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October 7: role of technology and population (1) major environmental problems and relationship to technology and society. Man"s unnatural treatment of natural and its sad results. The extinction of the european aurochs as late as 1627 would seem to have been a simple case of overenthusiastic hunting. Natural science, conceived as the effort to understand the nature of things, had flourished in several eras and among several peoples. But it was not until about four generations ago that western. Europe and north america arranged a marriage between science and technology, a union of the theoretical and the empirical approaches to our natural environment. Science was traditionally aristocratic, speculative, intellectual in intent; technology was lower-class, empirical, action-oriented. Our ecological crisis is the product of an emerging, entirely novel, democratic culture. Both modern technology and modern science are distinctively occidental. Until recently, agriculture has been the chief occupation even in. Advanced societies; hence, any change of methods of tillage has much importance.
