Class #5, 9/27/10

**Roster, Etc.

**Interesting--AND we'll read more about resources and politics later in the year:  Politics and the nations of the Nile River.

----->----->From the BBC, a map of global water distribution.  What do you notice about the areas of water supply stress?

----->----->Also from the Middle East:  Can you build "green" in a land with no green?

**Due tonight:

• Preliminary report on your ecology project.
• Based on the assigned readings, a summary/evaluation of the one reading whose position best matches your own.

**Short revisiting of Arne Naess' point of view. What sort of change of mind does he advocate--reform or something deeper? And, what do you think that would mean for your life?

**Review and discussion of this week's points of view:

• O.P. Dwivedi, "Satyagraha for Conservation," pp 310ff
• Lily de Silva, "The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature," pp 319ff
• M. Y. Izzi Deen, "Islamic Environmental Ethics," pp 323ff
• S. Ogungbemi, "An African Perspective," pp 330ff.
• Visuals and background for tonight's readings.

**For 10/4: Defining whether obligations to posterity should play a role in my environmental position.

Read--

• Robert Heilbroner, "What has Posterity Ever Done for Me?" pp 347ff
• Garrett Hardin, "Who cares for Posterity?" pp 350ff.

----->Write: What good reasons, if any, are there for you and me to care about the quality of the environment to be experienced by our children and their children?