ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Environmental Movement, Industrial Revolution, Mahatma Gandhi

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

Document Summary

Lecture 3 ( sustainable development, food, and the precauionary principle ) Introduction to ethics: ethics: study of morals + values. If your facts are wrong it can lead to poor judgements, likewise if your values are faulty then it can lead to poor judgements: law vs morality: just because it is legal- does not make it right. What ought to be" i. e rape, murder, genocides are wrong. This approach holds certain acions as wrong. (non-consequenial: david thoreau walking -dude walked 4 hours a day, without any teleological purpose. He saw mexico being atacked by the states as completely immoral- which is why to show his support he refused to pay taxes that funded for the mexican-american war. Objecion to immoral laws similar to mahatma ghandi (the bald dude) He did not want to lead a life of desperaion. He lived in the woods for 2 years to write and relect on nature.