C & D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - Today we are in room 115 all morning long. Yesterday Young asked you "So, what is your belief on environmental issues? What do you believe in and why?" Today we're going to start with this. An Environmental Value System helps to explain how a person sees or values environmental issues. An EVS is influenced by many factors including (but not limited to): culture, economics and socio-politics. Your job, the idea of accumulating wealth, your community, the social network of friends you belong to, schooling, the media you consume and your political beliefs all affect how you see or value environmental issues. So, today I would like you to identify what your perspectives and beliefs are on environmental issues. To do this we'll take the New Ecological Paradigm questionnaire.
For each of the following 15 statements please indicate whether you strongly agree (SA) , agree (A), are neutral or unsure (NU), disagree (D), or strongly disagree (SD)
1. We are approaching the limit of the number of people the Earth can support.
2. Humans have the right to modify the natural environment to suit their needs.
3. When humans interfere with nature it often produces disastrous consequences.
4. Human ingenuity will insure that we do not make the Earth unlivable.
5. Humans are seriously abusing the environment.
6. The Earth has plenty of natural resources if we just learn how to develop them.
7. Plants and animals have as much right as humans to exist.
8. The balance of nature is strong enough to cope with the impacts of modern industrial nations.
9. Despite our special abilities, humans are still subject to the laws of nature.
10. The so-called “ecological crisis” facing humankind has been greatly exaggerated.
11. The Earth is like a spaceship with very limited room and resources.
12. Humans were meant to rule over the rest of nature.
13. The balance of nature is very delicate and easily upset.
14. Humans will eventually learn enough about how nature works to be able to control it.
15. If things continue on their present course, we will soon experience a major ecological catastrophe
Violent violations include: homicide, attempted murder, sexual assault (levels 1-3), assault level 3 aggravated, assault level 2 weapon or bodily harm, assault level 1, assault peace officer, assaulting with a weapon or causing bodily harm to a peace officer, aggravated assault to a peace officer, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats, sexual violations against children, firearms (use of, discharge, pointing), forcible confinement or kidnapping, abduction, extortion, Indecent/Harassing communications, commodification of sexual activity,
Property violations include: B&E, theft of motor vehicle, theft over $5000, theft under $5000, mischief, possession of stolen property, trafficking in stolen property, fraud, identity theft, identity fraud, arson, altering, removing or destroying vehicle identification number (VIN).
Social violations include: disturbing the peace, impaired driving, child pornography (possession, production and distribution), drug offences (possession, production and distribution), weapons (possession, production and distribution), prostitution (purchasing sexual services or communicating with the intention of buying sex)
For each of the following 15 statements please indicate whether you strongly agree (SA) , agree (A), are neutral or unsure (NU), disagree (D), or strongly disagree (SD)
1. We are approaching the limit of the number of people the Earth can support.
2. Humans have the right to modify the natural environment to suit their needs.
3. When humans interfere with nature it often produces disastrous consequences.
4. Human ingenuity will insure that we do not make the Earth unlivable.
5. Humans are seriously abusing the environment.
6. The Earth has plenty of natural resources if we just learn how to develop them.
7. Plants and animals have as much right as humans to exist.
8. The balance of nature is strong enough to cope with the impacts of modern industrial nations.
9. Despite our special abilities, humans are still subject to the laws of nature.
10. The so-called “ecological crisis” facing humankind has been greatly exaggerated.
11. The Earth is like a spaceship with very limited room and resources.
12. Humans were meant to rule over the rest of nature.
13. The balance of nature is very delicate and easily upset.
14. Humans will eventually learn enough about how nature works to be able to control it.
15. If things continue on their present course, we will soon experience a major ecological catastrophe
1/6/11 are about limits to growth; 2/7/12 are about anthropocentrism; 3/8/13 are about the fragility of nature's balance; 4/9/14 are about human exemptionaslism; and 5/10/15 are about the possibility of an ecological crisis. The seven even numbered items, if agreed to by a respondent, are meant to represent statements endorsed by the dominant social paradigm (DSP) where SA = 1, A = 2, NU = 3, D = 4 and SD = 5. The eight odd items, if agreed to by a respondent, are meant to reflect endorsement of the new environmental paradigm (NEP) where SA = 5, A = 4, NU = 3, D = 2, and SD = 1
So, the NEP favoured responses show a tendency towards Ecocentrism, or a nature-centered worldview/paradigm. The DSP favoured responses show a tendency towards Anthropocentrism, or people-centered, and Technocentrism, or technology-centered, worldview/paradigm (a higher score = NEP where a lower score = DSP). The NEP-R was designed to assess pro-environmental orientation and you discovered that differences in behavior or attitudes are often believed to be explained by underlying values, a world view, or a paradigm.
A Block Criminology - To start this afternoon, I'd like you to choose 5 Violent, 5 Property and 5 Social crimes in Canada, from the lists below, and identify if you think they are increasing, decreasing or are steady (unchanging).
Violent violations include: homicide, attempted murder, sexual assault (levels 1-3), assault level 3 aggravated, assault level 2 weapon or bodily harm, assault level 1, assault peace officer, assaulting with a weapon or causing bodily harm to a peace officer, aggravated assault to a peace officer, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats, sexual violations against children, firearms (use of, discharge, pointing), forcible confinement or kidnapping, abduction, extortion, Indecent/Harassing communications, commodification of sexual activity,
Property violations include: B&E, theft of motor vehicle, theft over $5000, theft under $5000, mischief, possession of stolen property, trafficking in stolen property, fraud, identity theft, identity fraud, arson, altering, removing or destroying vehicle identification number (VIN).
Social violations include: disturbing the peace, impaired driving, child pornography (possession, production and distribution), drug offences (possession, production and distribution), weapons (possession, production and distribution), prostitution (purchasing sexual services or communicating with the intention of buying sex)
B Block Physical Geography - You'll start with time to work on your Prince Rupert Topographic map activity...after a bit we start our look at the Earth being built up through tectonics. Okay...Lets get this out of the way right now....No, the horribly bad 2003 movie "The Core" is not possible! No, not just bad but impossibly so.
We do not have the technology to burrow our way to the core of the earth and detonate a nuclear device in order to start the liquid outer core rotating. Sigh...so horrible 😩😆
Today we start with tectonics and the internal structure/composition of the earth.
We do not have the technology to burrow our way to the core of the earth and detonate a nuclear device in order to start the liquid outer core rotating. Sigh...so horrible 😩😆
Today we start with tectonics and the internal structure/composition of the earth.
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