Class #6, 10/4/10

**Rosters, etc.

**Due tonight:  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?

**Discussion of "carbon savings 10:10" advertising.

**Group activity/discussion of duties toward posterity.

**Discussion of Heilbroner and Hardin.

----->Supplements for this issue are here.

**For 10/11:

----->Begin discussions of population with Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," pp 389 ff.  No writing assignment for this week.