Class #5, 2/18/13

**Due tonight:  Your short preliminary report on the tract of land you will "follow" for the next 2+ months.

**For discussion:  Readings from John Stuart Mill and Arne Naess--a drastic contrast of theories about Nature.

**Video about Arne Naess and attitudes toward the environment.

**For next week--Reading:  "The World's Perspectives"
------>R. Guha, "Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation:  A Third World Critique," pp 176ff
------>Genesis 1-3, pp 615ff
------>M.Y. Izzy Deen, "Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law and Society," pp 633ff
------>O.P. Dwivedi, "Satyagraha for Conservation:  A Hindu View,"  pp 640ff
------>Starhawk, "Pagan Environmentalism:  Principles of Unity,"  pp 655ff

**For next week--Write a page:  Based on the readings, what do the world's religious traditions appear to contribute to environmental ethics?  How, if at all, does this contribution add to the positions we have discussed so far?  (Substantiate your claims, one way or the other.)