Variance of environmental ethics underlying approaches--how do these approaches differ from approaches to air, soil and water management (if they do so?)
Concept of property--different cosmologies and worldviews influence how we conceive of our relationship to nature, and what morals guide our relations of reproduction and production. Territory--private property came about to justify forms of land ownership, and some theorists such as John Locke said that something becomes our own when we mix our labor with it, because we own our labor (individual mindset)-who owns and controls the surplus?
60 % of the world’s rivers are affected by diversions 1 billion lack access to safe water
Soil food web holds nutrients in the soil (in place) in the bodies of the bacteria and fungi--immobilized and then mineralized--not all nitrogen is equal--chemical fertilizes come in form of nitrates--these are like a salt, pulling the water out the of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes in the soil--missing microbiology means you have to keep adding the chemicals as they kill off the soil food web.
Social reality os seen always as in a state of becoming something else Type and degree of infrastructure such as roads and storage facilities, institutions such as banks, agricultural extension development projects, fiscal and monetary and pricing polity, legal structure of land tenure and of environmental protectiona dn conservation; the states degree of intervention in international imports and exports--all part of the explanaition of soil erosion
Whose taken geography? Anyone able to explain the winds? Volcanic eruption that affected atmosphere for a year? (release of gases) Constantly changing over long periods of time--but last 200 years we’ve had an unprecedented affect Like the earth’s skin--retains warmth, allows for respiration, contains moisture, regulates temperature, renews itself, consists of multiple layers with elaborate transport systems between them.--if too much is damaged or altered, the life it envelopes cannot survive Environment 451 Air chapter page 449
From Environment
LA--location on the west coast of North America in the subtropical region on the eastern side of the Pacific anticyclone --elevated inversions frequent and strong. Lowest layer of air the marine layer is cooled because of it s contact with the ocean. Air pollutants are trapped in the marine layer and prevented from vertically exchanging with the upper level of air.==From Environment
Changing scale of impact Local--classroom (parfumes), outside, designated smoking areas
50’s and 60’s to install tall smoke stacks…this led to acid rain elsewhere We also regulate in the county--air quality control board--usually Siskiyou is in violation of standards, we still do ‘burn barrels’ Japan anecdote: open slow burning trash heaps, 10 years later strictest pollution control equipment on incinerators
In the stratospheric ozone protects us from UV radiation, at low altitudes it is a pollutant (toxic to us)
CFC’s and stratosphere, Very useful ubiquitous product
From Environment--rising levels of CO2 in atmosphere
From Environment--rising levels of CO2 in atmosphere
Obama ’s decision may hinge on whether he has U.S. climate- change legislation to tout at the December meeting. While the House of Representatives passed a bill to cap greenhouse-gas emissions in June, The Senate bill says nothing about how to allocate pollution permits, an issue that took the House months to resolve after discussions with utilities and other companies.
Explain 6 degrees predictions
What underlying environmental ethic do you think is in this statement?
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