ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Henry David Thoreau, American Immigration To Mexico, Environmental Ethics

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Ecoliteracy conceived solely as ecological science can (cid:494)skirt these moral and political issues(cid:495) -from (cid:494)familiar(cid:495) problems to (cid:494)frontier(cid:495) and (cid:494)foresight(cid:495) problems (cid:523)wicked(cid:524) Confirmation bias - a tendency for people to favour information that confirms their preconceptions regardless of whether the information is true. No assured path form knowing to action an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome our actions that reflect us in a bad light. Groupthink where the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in. Cognitive dissonance tending to think ourselves in a good light, we rationalize. Close to ralph waldo emerson (owner of walden pond) Civil disobedience, against slavery, american- mexican war (& unjust laws) king jr) Jailed for not paying poll tax resistance (read by ghandi and martin luther (cid:498)) wish to peak a word for nature, for absolute freedom and wilderness(cid:499) (cid:494)sauntering(cid:495) not to be confused with (cid:494)walking(cid:495) (cid:494)jogging(cid:495) .