EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - True Value, Renewable Energy, Easter Island
1 Nov 2012
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Today"s objectives: organization of course and ground rules, how does science work, what is environmental science, what are the major philosophical points surrounding environmental. Science: organization of course and ground rules, how does science work, what is environmental science, what are the major philosophical points surrounding environmental. Right , only that it is not wrong : any notion of the world (theory) is only correct (not wrong) until scrutiny reveals it to be incomplete. Doubt and questioning lead to better understanding: there is no absolute truth in science, but we do have laws: a natural phenomenon that has been proven to occur invariably whenever certain conditions are met. A farmer outside of newmarket notices that the pond on his property has an unusually high amount of algae in it. Because of the algal growth, his cattle will not drink from the pond.
