EVR 1001L Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Precautionary Principle, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
5 Jun 2017
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Population growth is limited by available resources, growth is proportional to population, and growth is exponential. The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can sustain. Population stabilizes, population can export immigrants, or overshoot and crash. The precautionary principle states that when there is a threat of serious, irreversible environmental damage we should not wait for proof before taking precautionary actions. Utilitarianism concerns itself with the economic or quantitative value of the environment to humanity. Using small detailed logical statements to arrive at large, overarching conclusions. When a large overarching observation is true until observed to be false. An open system has no boundaries (energy moves in and out of the system) while a closed system has boundaries past which energy cannot travel. A negative feedback loop has a stabilizing effect while a positive feedback loop has a destabilizing effect. The total amount of energy in the universe is constant. The tilt of the earth on its axis.
