Global warming and the media

From Forbes Magazine:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/12/23/media-climate-change-warming-opinions-contributors-larry-bell.html

Blizzard time!

The New England blizzard of December 26-27, 2010, in time lapse, from the streets of Boston:



http://bcove.me/czwdlbll

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