ENV 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Civilization, Lythrum Salicaria, Scientific Method

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENV 1101
• Professor: Sasa Kebo

Document Summary

Notion of guilt, planets are talking about earth and talking about how humans are bad. Save environment - this implicates that we can save the environment Chuck - underestimating humans, plastics are just an invention. The point is we need a paradigm shift in the way we see ourselves. We think of ourselves as bystanders, but we are more destructive. Really far, rapanui developed and thrived and created this architectural style. The europeans came and less than 2000 ppl lived there. According to archaeologists, these figures are monument to nui ppl. There was evidence of a very sophisticated society without tools, or visible tools to create the statues. Research shows that 60-30,000 ppl lived in this island and prior to humans it was covered with trees and has been cleared over several centuries. The lose of the trees exposed the soil to serious erosion.