Geography 3432A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Skeptical Environmentalist, Environmental Hazard, Gaia Hypothesis

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 3432A/B
• Professor: Chad Walker

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Biomedical: the absence of disease (free of illness/injury) Who (1948): a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Settings designed, created and maintained by human efforts. Environments that support human health & wellbeing. Focus: factors that actively promote improved health and wellbeing vs. Planning and designing communities to make it easier for people to make healthy choices where they live, work and play. Exposure being exposed to contact w/ contaminant. Environmental hazard & health challenges cannot be solved in isolation. Rethink design & planning of our homes, schools, offices, neighborhoods, regions and transit systems. Media is one of the ways we form opinion, other than education, experience, political. Lecture - (environment, health, media & climate change) parties. Lo(cid:373)borg"s thesis o(cid:374) media a(cid:374)d the e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:862)e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal hysteria(cid:863) leads to (cid:271)ad de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s claims by environmentalists about climate change, overpopulation, energy, etc, are exaggerations.