ENVS 1000 Lecture 2: ENVS Lec 2-4

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Peter Timmerman

Document Summary

Question of conventional ethics being too human centered, western society may need a new ethic for addressing human nature relations. Different perspectives and approaches are all integrated to problem solve any environmental issue. This is different, from how knowledge usually organized around disciplines. Why e is interdisciplinary (radical openness) it is an adventure. E problems are deeply historical questions, ongoing process. Deeply wounded into who we are as a society. We operate on environmental thats more powerful and bigger than you are. Materialistic terms- e. studies links nature and society in these materialistic terms. We can"t control ourselves, were locked in this system. We don"t just saturate resources from southern hemisphere but were exploiting their affection (adopting) care gets commodified. Places being industrialized in rapid way found to show more hysteric people. Free trade zones in malaysia idea that the ghosts disturb only the new girls.