VALUES/Terms Flashcards
(14 cards)
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
