----->Questions about project, etc. Remember that the preliminary report is due next week, 9/27.
----->Due tonight: Writing: Briefly summarize Arne Naess' position (hint: he's radical). Then, what is your case for agreeing or disagreeing with what he's saying. [About a Page].
**Here's an article about genetically-modified salmon. Would you buy it? Would you feed it to your family? "Frankenfish!"
**Tonight's discussion/presentation:
- Visuals.
- John Stuart Mill, "Nature," pp 123ff.
- Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life," pp 131ff.
- Aldo Leopold, "Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic," pp 163ff
- A short bio, "Green Fire."
- J. Baird Callicott, "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic," pp 173ff
- Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep," pp 215ff
- Arne Naess, "Ecosophy T," pp 219ff.
- A video testimony from Arne Naess.
**For 9/27: A survey of the world's nature-values--Chapter 5.
- Read:
- 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.
- Write: Which of our writers do you find expresses a position closest to your own? Summarize that position and state what there is about it that you agree with.
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