Lesson 4 Flashcards
According to them, the grave risk of global warning was already anticipated but it has been long ignored
Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich
Is most felt by the poorest regions in the planet
Climate change impact
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines
Super Typhoon Yolanda
International name of Super Typhoon Yolanda
Haiyan
How many did Yolanda kill?
more than 6000 people
How many did Yolanda injur?
27,000
winds of Yolanda
195 mph
Yolanda is equivalent to a Category __ storm
Category 5 storm
Places that Yolanda hit
Tacloban and Ormoc
Yolanda displaced how many people?
4.1 million people
How many homes did Yolanda destroy?
1.2 million homes
Is a different way of looking at man’s relationship w/ nature
Deep ecology
In this sense is grounded in the interrelatedness of the species as a co-inhabitants in the planet
Deep ecology
Should carry the heavier responsibility in terms of mitigating the impact of global warming on poor nations
Industrial nations
Cooperation of ___ ___ is important in order to achieve the greater interest of humanity which is to save the planet
every government
The greater interest of humanity
save the planet
Is to keep asking more searching questions about the real meaning of human life, society, and nature
Deep ecology
The source of the ideas of deep ecology
Oriental
Oriental has two important aspects, name them
Self-realization and biocentric equality
Is a spiritual in nature.
Self-realization
Means that all things in the biosphere develop to reach their own unfolding or self-realization
Biocentric equality