ENSC 305 Study Guide - Final Guide: Syphilis, Andrew Pickering, Sophist

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENSC 305
• Professor: Edmonton, Alberta

Document Summary

What is the environment: environment is widely used in science, popular discourse, and politics, but its meaning is vague, environments refers to a wide range of phenomena. Lecture one: epoch we are currently in = holiscene, crutzen marks the beginning of the anthropecene on july 1945 (the trinity detonation) In other words, uncovering the relationship between power, truth, and knowledge. In the end, we say nature constructs society, but its our idea of what nature is that we"re using. This leads to messy relations including killing some species to preserve others: the shifting baseline syndrome means that every generation of scientist accepts the environment as they inherit. Also known as environmental generational amnesia: leads to difficult questions about what we are trying to save and why. Images of sustainability: sustainable solutions = economic, environmental , social, sustainable =people, profit, planet.