ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vandana Shiva, James Lovelock, Stephen Hawking

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

From economics, missing was the wellbeing of ecosystems: continuing policy of economic growth detrimental to sustainability. Looking at our world from a particular standpoint: knowledge dictatorship, conquest and colonization, need to foster a care of life. Discover/re-discover traditional knowledge about biodiversity and sustainable living: navdanya farm: a women centred movement for the protection of biological and cultural diversity. It became necessary to recognize that the world not only appears differently according to our standpoint toward it and methods of addressing it, but itself will be constituted differently by the stance assumed toward it. Rather than assuming a standpoint outside of and unrelated to reality, from which objective" knowledge is possible, the observer is an integral part of the reality observed. We must be the change we want to see in the world. - gandhi. We must be an integral part of the change we want to see in the world. gandhi and.