ENVS 1000 FINAL EXAM REVIEW RISE IN ENVIRONMENTALISM

ENVS 1000: EXAM REVIEW RISE IN ENVIRONMENTALISM Reading: “Rise in Environmentalism” Peter Timmerman o Early organized environmentalism began in 19th century Britain. The two early environmentalists were John Ruskin and William Morris. They were responsible for the first environmental laws that governed sewage infrastructure, treatment plants and labour laws. o Early environmental movements covered the preservation of ancient monuments and the conservation of natural parks and landscapes. Though the preservation consisted of safeguarding land full of natural resources for future benefit and using parks strictly for the enjoyment of the wealthy, two environmentalists Henry David Thoreau and John Muir encouraged the enjoyment of parks for their natural and spiritual aspects. o Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the 18th century. It was known as the age of enlightenment and was in revolt to aristocratic social and political norms that gave rise to the industrial revolution. Romantics gained their motivation from nature and thus, with the industrial revolution destroying that which formed a relief for them, they took a stand towards spreading awareness of the harms being done. Environmental roots in Romanticism 1. The suspicion that the rise of industries and technologies are negatively affecting our physical Earth along with replacing spiritualism and socialism with practicality. 2. The suspicion that the natural world, which can be used as a form of relief from reality, is slowing becoming extinct. 3. The look at the detailed wonders and views of the biological world as a selforganizing entity. This “natural feel” forms the underlying ethic of environmentalism today. Modern environmentalism arose from Romanticism and scientific understanding of the natural world. Modern features in environmentalism created from a result by “shocks” called “ontological wounds” Wounds The Atomic Bomb (What are the three plus sides to this disaster?), 1. Toxic chemicals can not only cause problems now but also for future health of people, places and animals. ( self awareness of destruction) 2. Able to discover radiation patterns from the particulate matter within the air and map out the movement of the toxic radiation throughout the atmosphere. 3. This launch of satelitles gave us a larger vison of the world, showing us that we are connected. One environmental disaster for one country, affects other countries and their environments around the world= the connectivity of our planet, how everything works in full motion DDT and Silent Spring (Why was this significant?), Silent spring was the catalyst for the awareness of how bad ddt is. The starting of the anti ddt movement. The rise of ddt awareness came the rise of being more environmentally conscious. Everything we release into the air, soil and water will have an affect on these biomes, in which it has us thinking in a new point of view of how these things will affect us in the future. Acid Rain (Why was this significant? Think international sca