SOCA02H3 Lecture : Environment Lecture.docx
Document Summary
Ecology in the natural environment: over the last 100, years massive population growth, explosion in the number of people. Mostly in the developing world with the exception of china there is an explosion population, we see urbanization, and industrialization that put strains on the carrying capacity. Whenever people become wealthy, they start having 1. 6 children. Environmentalism is the interaction between society and the natural environment. Ecology developed in germany, the nazi"s loves the ecological principles and great environmentalists. Ecology is a place where the social sciences and natural sciences meet. We look at it in the social science point of view. Sociology has become interested in the environment because problems like pollution, and in the 19th century people in london england put their sewage in the tems river and people drank that water. All of our natural parks were created long before 1972. Yellowstone was the first national park in america.
