NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deep Ecology, Rachel Carson, Essentialism
9 Nov 2017
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Nats 1840 lecture 2 - the environmental movement. Environmental movement as a failure by its own standards (controversial claim) Nature is for our benefit (pragmatic view) some believe nature is there for our use, if its there we can use it. Nature is valuable in and of itself (essentialist view) the environment is special and has more value (we give money value) Environmental concern- philosophical or aesthetic, nature beautiful and inherently valuable, emotion, not reason, protection. Modern concern, mid-to-late 20th century, government and industry, universities, experts, ecologists, environmental management. Environmental movement and ecologists, scientific, quantitative analysis. Quantitative analysis- based on numbers, measuring (very useful for the environmental movement) throwing around statistics makes your point more persuasive. Science doesn"t give you values, it doesn"t tell you. What you should do, it tells you the way things are. Scientists working for the government wont say you shouldn"t cut down trees, they would say this is how many trees you should cut down.
