ENV333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Security, Biocoenosis, Consumerism
23 Nov 2020
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Env333 lecture 1: introduction and the modern worldview. Roman (development of lake) and chet worldviews. Roman view: incredible development and exploitation is raining world view. Chet view: appreciating nature, having deep love or affection for nature is our contemporary raining worldview. Appreciating beauty of this and in a place that ties him to his father and childhood, a place where he can enjoy nature and its beauty and what it has to offer in terms of health and space. Rachel carson writes book about what it would be like to have a world without birds and birdsong because of silent spring. Because of ddt, animals such as bald eagles and ospreys almost became extinct. Toxins being dumped into water worked way up food chain. This book helped changed a worldview of the human relationship to nonhuman nature. Notion of interrelationship - key component of ecology and ecological thinking.
