Class #14, 11/29/10

**Roster, etc.

**Projects due this evening.

**Return previous work.

**Discussion of readings:

----->Kirkpatrick Sale:  "Progress".

----->Erazim Kohak:  "Agathocentric Ecology".

**More on this issue:  Where are we going from here?



**Concluding discussion and points.

**Proposal for next week (December 6).  Reading Day or Exam?

Pope: bullish on agriculture

Pope: bullish on agriculture

And, just for fun, here's what he really said.

Class #13, 11/22/10

**Roster, etc.

**Reminder:  Your Project is due next Monday, 11/29.

**Due tonight:  Chapter 13, "Environmental Justice"-- specifically read pp. 659ff, "The Earth Charter."

**From today's NY Times:  An article about China's huge hunger for coal, and the willingness of nations who publicly are environment-friendly to sell it to the Chinese.  Is there a double-standard here?  Or, are strict environmental standard between nations inherently hypocritical?

**While we're on the subject, let's look at the Three Gorges Dam project.  It reached full operational capacity in October, 2008.  Videos here.

**Also for next week:  Two short philosophical articles on handouts.  We'll talk about these next week, and then I'll ask you to do a little in-class writing before we break.

Class #12, 11/15/10

**Roster, etc.

**Due tonight:   The validity of climate change-- 
  
----->Pew Center, "Understanding the causes of Global Climate Change," pp 569ff; 

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

----->IPCC's web site. 

----->Activity:  Prioritizing our environmental decisions.

**Further discussion:

----->Trailer for "Cool It" 

**For 11/22:  "Environmental Justice," Chapter 13--


----->Read:  "The Earth Charter," pp 659ff.

----->Your projects are due on the 29th (in two weeks).

Books for next semester's courses

You can pass the word on this for anyone who seems interested, also.

**Monday nights:

PHIL 3323 Philosophy of Religion

Peterson, et al., editors, Philosophy of Religion:  Selected Readings, 4th edition, 2009.
ISBN# 978-0-19-539359-0

**Wednesday nights:

PHIL 3301 Moral Issues: Personal and Professional

2 texts:

Pojman, Louis P., How Should We Live?  An Introduction to Ethics, 2004, Wadsworth Pub.
ISBN# 978-0534556570

Glover, Jonathan, Humanity:  A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, 2001, Yale U. Press.
ISBN# 978-0300087154

Class #11, 11/8/10

**Rosters, etc.

**Distribute/discuss final requirements for ecology project.

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

----->Working in groups: Here are a group of lifestyle questions to consider. On the first time through them, answer each question about how you and your family have dealt with these issues in the past few years or months.


1--What wakes you up in the morning?


2--How do you find out what the weather will be today?


3--Who fixed breakfast; what did you eat?


4--What type of work do you do?


5--How do you get to work?


6--What do you bring for lunch? (--or do you bring a lunch?)


7--What time did you leave work to get home?


8--Who fixed dinner? How long did it take?


9--How did you obtain the meat items you had for dinner?


10--What about vegetables, and fruit?


11--Where do you keep your milk and butter?


12--When's the last time you ate something that had been frozen?


13--What did you do with the dinner waste and leftovers?


14--What do you do with your household trash?


15--I know this is nosy, but what happens to the human waste from your household?


16--What happened the last time someone got sick from the flu? What did happen (or would have happened) when someone broke a bone or had another serious injury?


17--When is the last time you heard from your family in Massachusetts? Assuming you needed to get a message to them, how long would it take to reach someone? What if it were urgent?


18--What is the anticipated level of education of the majority of your family (of your generation or younger)?


19--What do you do for entertainment? What pastimes does your family enjoy together?


Now your instructor will give you another processing assignment to go over, using the same questions. You'll need to use your imagination.... General discussion will follow, and you'll be asked to make a decision.


**This week's readings and information:  The validity of climate change--
 
----->Pew Center, "Understanding the causes of Global Climate Change," pp 569ff;


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

----->IPCC's web site.
 
**For next week, 11/15:  Readings on Economics and Ecology--
 
----->Herman Daly, "Consumption:  The Economics of Value Added and the Ethics of Value Distributed," pp 611ff.
----->Mark Sagoff, "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are not all Economic," pp 619ff.