Environmental Science 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Precautionary Principle, Paradigm Shift, Anthropocentrism
24 Mar 2016
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Environment- all biotic and abiotic factors that act on an organism, population, or ecological community- connectivity of everything. Complex- don"t understand connectivity and affect actions have. Study of the house of organism- oikos greek meaning house. Business as usual (until its broken)- perspective we"ve taken with the planet. Precautionary principle- when you have a policy or action that could cause harm, no scienti c consensus that it causes harm, it is up to whomever is enacting the policy to prove that it doesn"t cause harm. Hard to get people to agree there"s a problem! Based on culture, values, traditions, education, ruling political parties. Hegemonic power- power body that shapes people"s views to parallel their own. Paradigm- pattern or model of how something is viewed. Paradigm shift- when theories or hegemonic set of ideas give way to another set of ideas over time. Late sixties paradigm shift began, start paying more attention to environment.
