ENV100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scotobiology, Bird Observatory, David Suzuki

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

Document Summary

Env100 test 2 preperation guide. Guest speaker- debb doncaster: ( missisauga ontario), president of earth day. She also helped build canada"s first wint turbine toronto waterfront. She became interested in the environment while studying her undergrad and after taking some env. Courses: animal rights & environmental ethics(ethics for non- human) - canada geese . This was wrong for two reasons (1) goose digestion. A video about commercialization during christmas season, where companies sell what sells. It introduces the gaia hypothesis to us. That earth is a self- regulating organism, that can maintain itself. Lovelock talks about his journey through space and time, and tries to substantiate the gaia hypothesis. He thinks that pollution is organic and a by- product of the humans life and work". Anyway- > he began to view the nature as an organism when he went on his vacation. He explains that mars does not have the capability of self- regulation, because it does not have life.