ENVS195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Planetary Boundaries, Overconsumption, Thích Nhất Hạnh
5 Dec 2017
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Lecture #2 environment, resources, and society (sept. 17) Environment: natural, unbiased landscape and non- animate things exist. Includes atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere (in which humans/other species and non-animate phenomena exists. Rocks, minerals, soils that provide nutrients for life. Nature: social creation and physical environment more than just objects; reflection of philosophies, belief. Troposphere (99% of water vapour & 90% of air) Thermosphere systems, ideologies (shape how we think about nature and how we use it = society) Resources: more specific, normally seen as forests, wildlife, oceans, rivers, lakes, minerals & petroleum. Society: sum of inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by humans across particular places and times. Nature and society are interrelated; nature is both physical realm and a social creation. If nature is a social creation, it is important to: Understand the social ideas of nature present in society today. Humans are separate and above, god created us in his image, leads to belief that nature.
