ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Nimby, United Nations Environment Programme, Soundscape Ecology
22 Feb 2019
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Compare and contrast each religion in the readings. What does timmerman mean when he says that "in no religion is the irony and the tension so great as in christianity" (the tension being between modern religion and the environmental crisis. Think back to the first term and recall the cosmologies and how they ordered the natural world. Think back to examples of art show in the first term. Discuss the different viewpoints in seeing the creator as a man or an animal. Compare and contrast the two themes: nature and the way to the self. Using traditional ethical frameworks such as consequential and deontological, explain the different viewpoints of peter singer and tom. Names some issues that are specific to canada. Describe the difference in types of knowledge both sylvie and the boy possess about birds. Describe some of the underlying tensions and dualism in the story. Explore the connection between deep ecology and feminism.
