ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chemical Industry, Human Body, Rachel Carson

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

Document Summary

Kahoot: visceral feeling: intuitive feeling in your gut, confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance, humans are subjected to 500 new chemicals according to carson. E(cid:272)o litera(cid:272)y (cid:894)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:895) + joy of emotion attachment to nature (visceral learning) Nature deficit disorder: last child in the woods, people with adhd do better when brought in the woods. Sources of eutrophication: agricultural world (fertilizers, cars, urbanization. A paradigm shift: rachel carson silent spring. The context: woman on her own, 1950s; masters (zoology) when few women in science, outsider status; became biologist for bureau of fisheries (eventually known as. Fish and wildlife service: love of writing about nature and science in early 50s (the sea around us & its best selling successor, the edge of the sea) become. The research: silent spring challenged wisdom of a government that allowed toxic chemicals to be put into environment before knowing long-term consequences of their use, encounters much evidence of dangers of ddt.