ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nature Deficit Disorder, Vimeo, Plastic Beach

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

Document Summary

The greenhouse that is forming now will have consequences on life and life systems that last for many years: desertification, sea level rise, ocean acidification. Rate of species extinction (5 in total, we are in the 6th major extinction) From holocene (the last 10,000 years) to anthropocene. The mini epoch (since around the industrial revolution 200/300 years) is called the. Anthropocene: humans are a geological force; we have affected every single ecosystem that exists on the earth, carso(cid:374): (cid:862)o(cid:374)ly (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the (cid:373)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of ti(cid:373)e represe(cid:374)ted (cid:271)y the prese(cid:374)t (cid:272)e(cid:374)tury has o(cid:374)e spe(cid:272)ies (cid:863) (pp. 5-6) (cid:862)ca(cid:374) a(cid:374)yo(cid:374)e (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e it is possi(cid:271)le (cid:863) (pp. 7-8) Vimeo video (midway a message from the gyre) Spatial, ethical reasons (i. e. : we are too disconnected from the consequences of our actions to others and the planet) Drastic re-examination of our political, economic, technological, social, political, religious systems. Re-invisioning of our relationship with nature and amongst ourselves.