Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Exponential Growth, Ecocentrism, Infant Mortality
14 Jan 2016
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Looks at the planet damages through both climate changes, industrialization, etc. Political issues people die trying to advocate issues. Environmental science subjective why there are emotions within environmental science. Environmental science is just a baby science as we have not been studying it for very long only 50 years really has it been studied in-depth and looking at the complexity and the connections between issues. The environment does not cause the science - you can not understand an environment issues without looking at from all angels. As to why we do not start with the science of the course. Everything that interacts with each other that creates an environment. You can categorize environments eg. marine environment. The house = the earth, the environment. Importance of your own oikos shelter, water, even things such as where is food located, is it assessable. We do not think about things such as clean water, shelter, etc till it is threatened or damaged.
