ENVIRON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bald Eagle, Environmental Science, Scientific Method
28 Dec 2018
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Environ 201: environmental science and ethics ch 1 and 6. Is air pollution a problem or the price of progress . Ddt, helpful pesticide, but fucks people and the environment up, softens bald eagle egg shells (not cool, def not the murican way) People differ in their awareness and perception of problems depending on who they are, where they live, and what they do. Science: a systematic processfuck missed it the study of shit . Environmental science (get data and get shit done) does not equal environmentalism (be active for a cause sans data like a dumbass) Still take them w/ a grain of salt. Theory: probable cause and effect relationship of evidence being observed. Law indisputable principles that govern the universe, Very few, must be sound proofs, or math eqn, may have once been theories, ex. Paradigm shift: a dramatic upheaval in thought that changes the dominant viewpoint.
