100960 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Rachel Carson, Ecocentrism, Exponential Growth
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Industrial society type of society that is driven by large-scale industrial production which supports large populations and characterised by extensive use of technology: graduated from using muscle power, to domesticating animals, developing agriculture and living in settlements. Industrial revolution (18-19th century) machines powered by fossil fuels, settlements morphed into cities (20th century) electricity to fuel around the clock activities (e. g. factory production) Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources: mine and burn carbon-based energy-dense deposits, producing c02 gas, using finite resources from the ground, warming the planet. Increasingly effective agricultural system, soil degradation, pollution, loss of biodiversity: biodiversity variety of all life forms found on earth, they form ecosystems, can be on the genetic level, species level and the level of whole ecosystem. The limits to growth" (1972) book by club of rome. Instrumentalist seeing humanity as separate from nature: deep green seeing humanity deeply embedded in nature.