ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cathedra, Biocoenosis

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

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Eco literacy is not enough; you need to do more so you can understand it at a deeper level. Wicked problems- problems that are so complex, there is no easy answer if any: climate change is a wicked problem. How you see the world; your culture, your values, morals, etc. Affects how you will take on the issue and solve environmental problems. Henry david thoreau/born in concord mass/writer, surveyor, pencil maker. Close to ralph waldo emerson (owner of walden pond) Part of the transcendental movement: a movement of spirituality and the environment, critical of contemporary society and conformity, solitude among nature, fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374) path a(cid:374)d self-reliance. Wrote about civil disobedience, fought against slavery, american-mexican war: civil disobedience writing heavily influenced ghandi. But possibly the day will come when it will be pa(cid:396)titio(cid:374)ed off i(cid:374)to (cid:894)e(cid:454)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)e(cid:895) pleasu(cid:396)e g(cid:396)ou(cid:374)ds(cid:863: talks about freely walking but public spaces may become exclusive and costly.