ENVS 1000 Lecture : ENVS Lectures.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Peter Timmerman

Document Summary

Intensification existing issue becomes radically more difficult, new intensity impacts: extensification existing issue spread water, affects a new range, boundary crossing an existing issue moves over its existing boundary, complicating institutions responses, new emergent properties an existing issue is transformed by synergy or complex internal properties into a completely new problem, emergencies/surprises a new problem emerges out of no where, new problems from old solutions a solution turns into the next big problem, pseudo problems and false crises ex. Environmental ethics different approaches/forms (see overhead slides: traditional ethical systems, extensions of traditions ethical systems, shallow ecology, social ecology, deep ecology, eco feminism. Environment in visual media advertising: environment as content, environment as ground (background, environment as surroundings, hyper nature (virtually replacing nature, advertising is a mix between information and association (metaphor and logic e. g. as x is to y; so if you get y you can get x, analogy/symbol.