This page is under construction. It will be finalized by May 2.
BASICS
- Date/Time/Place: May 9, 11:30, Hyer 106
- The final covers modules 4, 5, and 6
- Closed everything
- You'll be writing on paper
- You'll have two hours
- There will be about 6 questions and you'll choose 4 to answer
- REVIEW -- we'll review May 6
ADVICE
- Use all the materials available:
- blog posts (but don't memorize or repeat word-for-word) -- list with highlights is below
- your own notes
- the readings -- there are sometimes annotated versions of readings in the blog posts
- RRs and comments you received on them
- examples from reports -- use reporting document
- Answer questions as fully as you can in the time available.
- Make sure you understand what an "argument" is.
- Answer completely. See sample grading.
MODULE 4: CLIMATE CHANGE
Mar 10 | Climate change basics | basic science, concepts, terms, issues
Mar 12 | Climate change and politics | why we are politically divided (Jamieson), see also May 2 for more on politics
Mar 14 | Future People | Broome on discounting, reasons for and against discounting
Mar 24| Future People (class cancelled)
Mar 26 | Debate 3: future people | arguments for and against discounting, arguments for longtermism (MacAskill)
Mar 28 | Climate justice | mitigation, Peter Singer's village drain, historical principles vs. time-slice principles, equal shares
Mar 31 | Climate justice | more on historical principles vs. equal shares, making the reductions occur via cap and trade
Apr 2 | Geoengineering | Lomborg's defense of adaptation, Lomborg's optimism about geoengineering, examples in reports
MODULE 5: WILD PLACES
Apr 4 | Wild nature Furtak's account of loving nature, what can we/can't we love?, EO Wilson on wilderness
Apr 7 | Is wilderness a social construct? why loss of wilderness is bad, the value of wildness, Furtak and Wilson as valuers of wildness, Cronon's "The Trouble with Wilderness," his main arguments, his skepticism about wildness
Apr 9 | Faking nature back to valuers of wildness, Elliot on faking nature, the restoration thesis and why he rejects it, land restoration examples, animal restoration examples, what art reveals about our values
Apr 11| Returning recap of Elliot, straw manning him vs. steel manning him, faking nature example (dire wolf), Treuer's return article summarized, his proposal
Apr 14 Debate 4: returning the national parks
Apr 16 Restoring & rewilding the difference between restoration and rewilding, ethical objections to rewilding, rewilding reports
Apr 18 No classes
Apr 21 | Urban ecology Wilson vs. Cronon on urban nature, special obligations for urban wildlife (Palmer)
MODULE 6: ACTION/INACTION
Apr 23 | Green choices the "just one person" problem, case1: littering, case 2: recycling
Apr 25 | Do our choices matter? "just one person" problem, Jamieson on why we lack individual impact, the cumulative and threshold models, why he thinks we should still make individual mitigation efforts
Apr 28 | Collective action Hourdequin's way of resolving the "just one person" problem, the Confucian views involved
Apr 30 | Debate 5: green choices
May 2 | Can conservatives be environmentalists? Scruton on how conservative conservationism is different from liberal conservationism ***not on final***
May 5 | Ecosabotage What it is, how Malm defends it
May 6 | Review
May 9 | Final exam at 11:30 in Hyer 106 (two hours)
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