ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environment And Climate Change Canada, Sustainable Development, Hydrosphere
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Environment a legal entity environmental policies/practices need to be defined by various organizations. We have an environmental bill, gives us right to participate in environmental decision making. Differing perception of environmental problems (ex profane/secular vs. Scientific method testing ideas through observation, questioning, formulating hypothesis and experimentation that leads to support or reject hypothesis. Part of a larger process, includes peer review, publication, debate. A systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it, and the body of knowledge that comes from it. Environment canada the department of the federal government that is most directly responsible for the protection of the environment. Environmental science study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment, it is in disciplinary, relates to everything, engineering, economics, ethics, ecology, biology, chemistry, sociology etc. Rapid, extensive changes in past 50 years, likely to worsen. Substantial and irreversible loss in biodiversity, reversing requires significant changes.
