ISS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Land Management, Land Ethic, Postcolonialism
1 Jul 2016
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Homo sapiens-between 100 and 200 thousand years ago. Hydraluic era, green revolution, population growth and more! Rainforests logging, increasing fertilizer use, moving mountains for coal, damming rivers etc. Glacier retreat, sea level rise, ocean acidification, ozone hole, mass extinction etc. Anthropocene: human induced biological, chemical and geological processes on a global scale. Earth is moving out of the holocene. Human kind has become a global geo, bio, and chem force in its own right. The earth system has moved outside the holocene variability. Widespread migration from rural areas to urban areas. Rise in atmospheric green house gas concentrations. Increase in nitrogen in the environment (from human fixation or atmospheric nitrogen for fertilizers) Increase in the amount of land converted to pasture and cropland across the world. Environmental ethics: a brand of philosophy studying the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non human contents.
