SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Asthma, Mercury Poisoning, Radon
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Emphasizes the moral imperative of material wealth creation and the moral conviction that humans have the inalienable right to dominate nature and harness the environment to that end. Economic growth carries with it some values: the view that society is best organized on a large-scale, centralized basis, respect for authority, the ascendancy of law and order, and confidence in science and technology. Conviction that humans have a right a even a responsibility to dominate nature. Progress- increasing encroachment of civilization on jungles, deserts, frozen tundra and other wile geographic environments: environmental paradigm relationships. Higher priority to the realization of nonmaterial values- e. g. social. Little confidence in science and technology to come up with a technological fix to solve the problems of material and energy shortages. Earth"s resources are limited and should be conserved. Society should adopt small-scale, decentralized economic and political structures that are in harmony with nature.
