SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Mercury Poisoning, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Aquifer
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Sociology became interested in the environment because problems like pollution got a lot of publicity in the last few years. Modern environmental movement - pre occupied with pesticides. (getting rid of insects/fertilize they use chemicals in industrial processes) Pollution, global warming, acid rain all let to sociologists" interest in these issues. (impact of human on nature) Movement is made up of ring piecee members? (sometimes harassed some japanese ship sailors/whales) World is a single ecosystem (developed by german scholars in the 19th century) theyre called. romantics - romantic movement hated industrialization, and loved greenfields liked rural life and not the urban industrial life. Wanted to establish legal binding agreements on c02. Societies, at an intermediate stage of development, just about the hunter gather stage; a bit more technology comes in. (horticultural society) - small scale farming - it begins to have an impact on the environment. Oxen and horses and dogs, cats etc. (domesticated)
