Sunday, October 31, 2010

Class #10, 11/1/10

**Roster, etc.

**News items to review (see below).

**Review of readings:

----->M.A. Fox, "Vegetarianism and Treading Lightly on the Earth," pp 496ff


----->Hilary French, "You are what you breathe," pp 507ff

----->Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring," pp 526ff

----->Anne Platt McGinn, "Combating Malaria," pp 536ff

----->Ray and Guzzo, "The Blessings of Pesticides," pp 562ff.


**"Then and Now" Exercise on use of resources, and discussion.


**For next week, 11/8/10:  Climate Change.  Read:


----->Pew Center, "Understanding the causes of Global Climate Change," pp 569ff;


----->Gardiner, "Ethics and Global Climate Change," pp 573ff.


Write:  At this point, what level of efforts on the part of yourself, the nation and the world to mitigate climate change?

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