ENS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthropocentrism, Lightning, Environmental Ethics
12 Sep 2017
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How environment affects humans and vice versa. Purify air & water, cycle nutrients, regulate climate, pollinate plants, recycle. From normal functioning natural services & allow us to survive. Clean water, flood control, habitat for game used for food. Hard to build on it, so market value is low $/acre. What would it cost to provide same amount of clean water, flood control, and habitat in human-built system. Shift from rural life, animal-powered agriculture & handcrafted goods to. Overshoot urban society with mass production & fossil fuels. Slash & burn farming = deforestation & soil erosion. Greek & roman empires, angkor, maya, iraq, syria trees. Definitions of science processes not yet well known. Observational/ descriptive- gather basic info on organisms, materials, systems or. Hypothesis-driven science- targeted & structured by using experiments. Search for correlation (statistical association among variables) Paradigm= dominant view that can be abandoned for another. Relativists= ethics should vary with social context.
