VALUES/Terms Flashcards
Spaceship earth
alone, floating through the universe. We’ve only got one shot. Can lead to nihilism
nihilism
If we are alone in this universe than what’s the point?
- the belief that life is meaningless.
Big History
Asks, why are you here? What is the purpose of the human experiment?
-allows a sense of perspective to be had on this history of life itself
geological vs human time scale
in the eyes of the cosmic calendar, humanity has existed for a minute before midnight on the 31st of December
Fermi Paradox
if there are so many planets, where is all the other life?
- Goldylocks zone must be the right distance
- magnetic field
- tilt allows seasons
- shape allows biomes
The great Oxidation
[o2] substantially increases due to phytoplankton
-lead to snowball earth
Cambrian explosion
an explosion of a variety of new species on earth
Human population bottleneck
humans weren’t always dominant, we can be wiped out
The great acceleration
the inc in soci-economic systems and values leads to an increase in env impact
Ecotheology
the earth and life is sacred (those wilderness Tumblr quote things)
-can one destroy gods creation
ecosystem services
like o2
-devalued in the market
these values are very anthroposentric
Environmental justice
a call for equity between economic and racial values
-sunsets, parks, water
natural wilderness?
FAKE NEWS
- nature is not static, it changes
- thus how are humans don’t create an inbalance
- ex// of slave trade in Africa, effecting the plains to undergo succession
- ex//algonkin park was created by humans (the area), logged and lived (where are natives now?)
People and nature
as natives already knw, we must life with nature, not aganst it
-unity
