ENV310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Resource Depletion, Non-Renewable Resource, Wise Use Movement
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Idea of progress: progress: idea that civilization is moving progressively in a +ve side, started out as a religious practice. Early recongnition of human impacts: philosophers wrote about env degradation and resource depletion resulting from human activities. Impacts of farming, logging and mining: varro 1st century bce we can, by care, lessen the evil effects [on the environment] Resource shortages: concerns about resource shortages, especially wood, grew in the 16 17 and 18 centuries, wrote about what we could call sustainable use thru balancing harvesting of old trees with growth of new trees. Idea that resources will last forever if we manage them now: human well-being might be harmed by resource depletion. Industrial revolution: human progress gradually became equated with the idea of modern eco growth and material advancement, domination over nature, not a new idea, on 1700s and ind rev became really resource based. Idea that resource use was not only acceptable but also necessary.
