GEOG 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, The Population Bomb, Environmental Degradation
5 Feb 2017
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Had a shift on how we think of the environment: how to save the environment from ourselves. By labeling something as resource is becomes useful to you (cid:498)resources are not, they become(cid:499) Don"t know the potential that the environment could have, a lot left: natural resources are understood to be the desirable parts of the environment unexplored. The objective interpretation: biophysical world that surrounds and supports us. The subjective interpretation: whatever way you perceive it. Changes within environment, as water warms the animals will become more toxic: magnitude and frequency of action. Mercury contamination within first nations, barrels of oils put down 50 years ago and are now leaking, leading to animals in area toxic: duration and timing of action, its significance. Bp oil spill: would it still be as big of an impact if it happened in the artic: no immediate reaction, perspective changes depending on environmentally, socially, economically.
