POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Environmental Policy, Ecosystem Services, Bisphenol A

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How do we make sense of environmental change: neo-malthusians to nasty surprises, the promethean response . We"re doing all sorts of things to the environment which will lead. Pols 3370 environmental politics & governance notes september 15. Beyond the limits? understanding processes of global environmental change. Think there are negative environmental impacts on the world, but the most important resource is human ingenuity, we can adapt and solve environmental problems. Welcome to the anthropocene: there"s a debate about whether we"ve actually entered this era, defining feature is that humanity has emerged as the major driving force on the planet. A lot evidence that human activity is having the largest impact on major ecosystems compared to anything else. What is dangerous environmental change: argument that we as a species are always changing our planet, also a matter of some debate. Ex. whether clear-cutting is leading to dangerous, irreversible environmental change.

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