Class #10, 4/1/13

**Due tonight:   From Chapter 9:  "Pollution:  Soil Air Water."  Read:

------>French, "You Are What You Breathe,"  pp 314ff

------>Bradford, "We All Live in Bhopal," pp 322ff

------>Baxter, "People or Penguins...," pp 327ff

Write:

------>The oil company British Petroleum and its partners have spent billions of dollars to clean up the effects of the Gulf of Mexico spill and to compensate both individuals and governmental bodies for their losses and expenses relating to the accident.  Do you feel that the punishments have been just and that enough has been done to prevent and deter further carelessness in the extraction of energy resources?  

**Discussion of readings and tonight's topic.

**Here are links to some of the videos related to tonight's lesson--
------>On the Bhopal tragedy:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT4lz4hzPWQ
------>On the Pacific trash vortex,  #1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6LvdsyJ4U
------>and #2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yiPZNsW8fI
------>On another type of pollution--from diet and medicine:  http://www.ted.com/talks/award_winning_teen_age_science_in_action.html
  

**Feedback/sharing on  progress with nature observation.

**For next week, 4/8/13:  From Chapter 8, Climate Change--

------>Pew Center, "Understanding the causes of Global Climate Change," pp 413ff

------>Gardiner, "Ethics and Global Climate Change," pp 437ff.

Writing:  Go to Bjorn Lomborg's website, lomborg.com, and survey what he says about climate change and environmentalism in general.  Compare his critique with that of Gardiner.  Who's right?