ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Candu Reactor, Precautionary Principle, Bioregionalism

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Anita Lam

Document Summary

Ethics: what is right thing to do? (justice, the good) These class over our society in environmental issues: traditional ethical systems: rights based systems, extensions of traditional ethical systems. Redefining human rights more broadly to include rights to a clean environment. Extension of human rights into the animal, plant, worlds (aldo leopold: shallow ecology. Sustainability: social ecology, deep ecology social but with different variations. Women exploitation same as environmental exploitation: indigenous ways, religious/spiritual ecology: Ways of living not consistent with darma, buddha. Case study: ethics of high level nuclear waste disposal. 15% canada"s electricity powered by nuclear energy in candu reactors in ontario, Candu fuel is uranium dioxide about 18-24 kg per bundle. 113,000 bundles a year, rough 2 million kgs of nuclear waste per year. when they built the nuclear power plants no one had any idea what to do with the waste.