Lec 9: Frameworks for environmental analysis Flashcards
What does self-referencing refer to?
our capacity to see our own adaptive capacity as part of our adaptive capacity
we can perceive our role in our own environment and analyze it
Which environmental systems are affected by life? How does this lead to conflict?
ALL environmental systems are affected by life.
This leads to complexity, change, unpredictability, and therefore conflict.
What is the role of humans according to christian ontology?
How has this idea driven modern thought?
To multiply and subdue the Earth.
This idea has driven western civilization. However, other civilizations
What are cosmologies and what do they drive?
A cosmology is the way we believe the world works.
Cosmologies determine how we act, what we do, and what we WANT to do.
define
- cosmology
- ontology
- epistemology
cosmology: the way we believe the world works
ontology: the philosophy of being
epistemology: the philosophy of knowing
How do cosmologies shift?
Through jolts
What are the implications of cosmologies within environmental management?
- our cosmology is part of “how things work”
- not everyone we deal with within EM will have the same cosmologies
- we need to be ready to accept that our cosmology may be wrong. The truths of tomorrow may first appear as wrong within our current cosmology.
How do failed predictions lead to evolution in human intelligence?
When something challenges existing cosmologies, we form new cosmologies
“the complicated futility of ignorance”
why do we say that ignorance is useless?
because if we dont know something, we cant manage it. in the context of environmental management, we cannot manage the environment if we don’t understand the system. need science and social science
What is the greatest barrier to progress?
Not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge
Romer’s Rule
evolution usually happens to adapt a species to its niche, but it ends up opening up other niches
things have unintended consequences
Red Queen Effect
