ENV 320W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nature Reserve, Anthropocentrism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENV 320W
• Professor: Dan Hooley

Document Summary

Restoration relieves guilt from our destruction of nature. Concern: humanity morally responsible for reconstructing natural areas & entities. Argument: against optimistic view that humanity has obligation & ability to repair damaged natural systems. Eric believes restoration = expression of anthropocentric view to redesign natural reality: restored nature = artifact for human satisfaction, human domination of nature. Robert elliot: perfect copy of nature has less value than original. In terms of origins, kinds of processes: understanding and evaluation. Maser: restore forest as it harvests it, problem 1: human design comparison to nature"s design, problem 2: comparison of nature to mechanism we don"t fully understand, we over simply forest. Problem 3: purpose of restoration forestry is anthropocentric. All preservation & restoration is the production of human goods -> human benefits. Artifacts are designed by humans for humans to satisfy human interests & needs. Elliot: 2 points on process of evaluation, 1. Use of knowledge about this causal history to make appropriate judgements.