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ENV100H1 Chapter Notes -Walkover, Robert Rodale, Jacques Ellul

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24 May 2012
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School of Environment
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ENV100H1
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Stephen Scharper

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Of all the issues we are concerned with right now, most basic issue is human-earth relationships. Destroyed animal habitats, and made animals extinct. Killed many habitats for fish by contaminating lakes. Earth has become devoured due to humans. Whereas the infrastructures of nature continually renew themselves from within, our infrastructures dissolve in the corrosive acids of the env. or break under the relentless strain imposed on them. Human miseries have been eliminated cuz of new sciences + technology. Natural world = violent cuz of withering drought, onrushing floods, + hurricanes. Since the rise of agriculture at the beginning of the neolithic period, humans are putting stress on the natural world. Deforestation in china occurred 3000 yrs ago and hasn"t stopped since. Part of erosion is due to human interventions. Julian simon + herman kahn we should press on even more with our industrial development,

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