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ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Environment And Climate Change Canada, Nimby

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School of Environment
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ENV222H1
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Mairi Mac Donald

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Exam - friday april 29, 2011 9-11 am: a moratorium was placed on the construction of wind power due to activist efforts. february 11 article - the star and globe and mail. cynical view: the ontario government is using science as an excuse not to move ahead: two themes for today. scientists as actors play an essential role in that the empirical method is now by far the most legitimate type of knowledge - it has become firmly established; it is the dominant form. scientists play a role b/c it is impossible to get environmental approval w/out scientific consent: wind power: they need to make the argument that there are adverse health effects that are related to wind power. they are in a nimby position that must be backed up by scientific proof science has limitations of norms and ethics, there are other implications.

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