ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miranda Hill, Industrial Revolution, Chlorine

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Peter Timmerman

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Charle darwin- 1812 origin of species, nov 1859. Genovese island, birds family is rich slave trade civil war satinette. The e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:862)(cid:272)hoose(cid:863) that (cid:448)ariatio(cid:374) that (cid:272)a(cid:374) sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)e (cid:894)kills, (cid:272)ulls, sideli(cid:374)es the rest(cid:895) The sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:448)ariatio(cid:374)s (cid:894)the (cid:862)fittest(cid:863)(cid:895) get to pass their variation on to the next generation. And so on: it starts all over again. Out of this, the immense complex design is woven over vast eons of time. Banff 1885 around a hotsprings: resort park (own by king, kill animals) 1st wave: (1880s 1940s) conservation/ factory legislation. 2nd wave: (1950s- 1970s) environmentalism and first environmental legislation. 3rd concerns over the trajectory of modernity/ planetary consciousness. 4th rethinking/recreating nature and the human being environmentalism is not about the environment fabric of life: cycles of life: chemicals/ ecosystems. Extended time and space cosmic story. Each new threat to the fabric of life- every new wound- has generated a new phase of the environment moment. Wound 1: the atom bomb (population, genetic)