ENV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kofi Annan, Sustainable Development, Inductive Reasoning
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We are not environmental sustainable because of the high pops there are nowadays. Scn assumptions: world is knowable, universal patterns. We are getting into specifics rather than generals like years ago. There is more accuracy in what we do/know: change in knowledge is inevitable. If generalizations cannot be tested than not a scn statement. Human env is in between nature, society and culture and revolves around of each of those things, like law, politics, religion, history,math, physic, bio etc. Its the study of how the natural world works and how our env affects us and how we affect the env: central questions of env scn. Challenges of env scn: can never provide absolute truth, but can provide increasingly better approximations, change in knowledge is inevitable as new info is gathered, uncertainties are inherent. Env sustainability; what is the problem: only by understanding the env and how it works can we make the necessary decisions to protect it.
