ENV333H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Overconsumption, Moral Evil, Human Ecology

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23 Nov 2020

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UTSG

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Environmental Studies

Course

ENV333H1

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Steven Scharper

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Allow us to understand how the world functions and how it is structured. World here means the totality, everything that exists around us, including the physical universe, the earth, life, mind, society and culture. A world view would also answer the basic question: who are we? . If we can explain how and why a particular phenomenon (say life or mind) has arisen, we will be able to better understand how that phenomenon functions. It will also help us to understand how that phenomenon continues to evolve. Should answer the question where are we going to? . Give us a list of possibilities, of more or less probable future developments. Includes morality and ethics, the system of rules which tells us how we should or should not behave. Gives us a sense of purpose, a direction or set of goals to guide our actions.

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What are the effects of world hunger? world hunger simply means that there are lots of people with an insufficient amount of food. World hunger has become a major problem nowadays. It is presented in media to the public and, as a result, people behave become aware of it. World hunger has serious social and environmental effects, but there is also some solution.

Some of the social effects of world hunger are malnutrition and illiteracy. When a human body does receive a daily sufficient amount of nutrients, it will not do its functions well. If this condition remains for a long time, the body will eventually die. According to Ziegler(2007) in 2006, hunger and diseases resulted from it were the main death cause of 36 million people (para2). Also, people who do not have enough food have few chances to go for education because obviously, they will not be financially mentally, and physically ready to study.

Some of the environmental effects of world hunger are logging and agriculture. Result in trees many services to the environment where there are they are in industrial areas absorb carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, which in agricultural areas are in addition to the above work windbreaks to protect crops and provide shade and provide us with wood, and dead trees in the forest other services important to the environment they lose their leaves periodically and the fallen leaves decomposed "humus" feeds the soil and maintains soil fertility, which provides a constant temperature of about wild animals that find shelter forest, a place suitable for life. According to Harcurt(2011) "many of these great impact on agricultural production and hence nutrition"(para3).
And forests from renewable resources, which goes a lot of human trees to get wood for the furniture industry, paper, and clothing.
Has resulted in over-cutting of trees and forest degradation and its orientation towards drought

Some of the solutions for world hunger are even though the government is doing a lot of solutions to reduce world hunger still are facing this problem. The solution is that government should have to pay all basic expenses to under 18 and over 50 and also give enough employment to young people. Accordingto Ziegler (2007) everyone should work together to find a solution to this problem(para4).
One another solution for decrease world hunger is government should give equal and free education to all citizens even they are rich or poor.

In conclusion: The government should help world hunger or poverty to support people with food and money. Also, someone must fix problems such as health or education to prevent hunger. Also, climate change should make the environment better. If everyone helps us to support people with money or food we won't find world hunger.

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1. Richard Dawkins interviews Randolph Nesse on evolutionary medicine (46 min):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAOhOhJr-gM

âAnswer the following

1. Why should doctors understand natural selection?

2. What is "badly designed" about our forearms? Why?

3. Why do we all use the QWERTY keyboard? Is it the best arrangement of keys?

4. Why don't we "see" the blind spot in our field of view?

5. Is the body a machine? Why or why not?

6. What are the two different kinds of problems people bring to their doctors?

7. What would a life without pain be like? Why?

8. Why do we get fevers?

9. How does a lizard get a fever?

10. What is the "smoke detector principle"? Give an example.

11. How are our needs and motivations, shaped by natural selection, killing us now?

12. Why are our intestines all tangled up?

13. Why do so many people have back problems (in evolutionary terms)?

14. What paragraph is missing from every section of medical textbooks?

15. What are telomeres?

16. Why didn't natural selection

17. Are we designed (by natural selection) to be healthy and happy? Explain.

18. Why do we age?

19. If there weren't any aging, how long would we live?

20. How can a lethal gene increase in frequency?

21. Would life be great if we didn't have anxiety? Why or why not?

22. What are panic attacks (in evolutionary terms)?

23. "In a nutshell", what is Darwinian medicine?

24. Why hasn't natural selection made us better than we are? (4 reasons)

25. In what two ways do we misunderstand the body?

26. Why does natural selection "discriminate against men"? (I.e., Why do males tend to die sooner than females?)

27. ...Is #26 only a human phenomenon? Where else is this pattern seen?

28. What is a possible evolutionary explanation for menopause?

29. What has natural selection designed us for, health or reproduction?

30. From an evolutionary point of view, why is there so much suffering in life?

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Even though they have been doing it all their lives, people need to study communication simply because it is so complex. As stated in chapter 3 of the book, we all perceive things differently and "perception and communication influence each other, perception shapes our understanding of others' communication and the choices we make in our own communication" (pg. 41). For the reason that the choices we make and the ways that we view things/situations are changing everyday, communication between two individuals also changes and becomes more complex. Though we can communicate in general, how we communicate and what we communicate depends on how we perceive the world around us, making communication not as simple as it seems. As humans, we create broad categories of things (prototypes) and place people into them (Wood pg. 43). We then go on to create a more detailed assessment (a personal construct) where we measure a person or situation with a certain dimension of judgment (Wood pg. 43). We also place people and situations into stereotypes by making predictive generalizations or simply predicting what the personal/situation will be like or what will happen (Wood pg. 43). With all of these components to a basic path of communicating with others, it's hard to not see why we would study our complex underlying system of human communication. Not only do we make assumptions, but we base our thoughts/actions off of those assumptions which can then all be interpreted differently among various individuals. We study communication to try and dissect all of these interpretations and perceptions of others "to make sense of experience and to predict how we and others will act" (Wood pg. 45). Sometimes we follow a script or just simply act a specific way in a specific situation (like greeting someone and telling them your name) (Wood pg. 45). However, not everyone follows these scripts which just adds to the complexity of communication between us all.

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