Science
- According to Dyball & Newell, when Alex used body lotions and moisturizers to replace the oils she had washed away in the shower, she unknowingly endangered Orangutans. EXPLAIN:
- It is possible for Earth’s systems to provide the same level of resources as you or I or Alex consume for all of the humans on Earth. EXPLAIN:
- Human ecology is not content to merely describe the world as itis: it is fundamentally concerned with how the world ought to be. EXPLAIN:
- Is the way Alex lives ethically defensible? Why or why not?
- The field of Human Ecology istransdisciplinary, EXPLAIN:
- What issocial equity? What is ecological sustainability?
How are social equity and ecological sustainability interconnected?
- What is the overall effect of the Aboriginal peoples’ activities on the material balance of the landscape? Explain:
- The culture and worldview of the new European arrivals to colonial Australia:
- espoused a view of social justice for all humans.
- was one that believed the environment was there to be dominated and controlled.
- were much more sophisticated in regard to ecosystems than that of the Aboriginal peoples.
- had little effect on the native peoples or ecosystems of Australia.
- Why did engineers and planners think it was a good thing, at the time, to destroy the Snowy River?
- Why do well-intentioned human interventions designed to solve human-ecological problems typically fail and actually make matters worse environmentally or socially or both?
