ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hooker Chemical Company, Lois Gibbs, Creatures 2
22 Feb 2019
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The environment chooses that variation that can survives (kills, culls, sidelines the rest) The surviving variations (the fittest ) get to pass their variation on to the next generation. And so on: it starts all over again. Out of this, the immense complex design is woven over vast eons of time. 2nd wave: 1950-1970: environmentalism and first environmental legislation. 3rd wave: 1980-2000: concerns over the trajectory of modernity/planetary consciousness. 4th wave: year unknown: rethinking/recreating nature and the human being. Wounds 1: the atom bomb: human beings were able to do it: ground zero images: above ground testing controversy, 1960-1970: people worried about nuclear waste. Wound 4: the ozone hole: ultraviolet light is leaking through, breaks down ozone into atomic oxygen, ozone hole over the arctic. Wound 6: climate change: assault on the season, stopped the talk about the climate change for some reason. Wound 7: the emerging redesign of life itself: human genome project, controversy, concepts of.
