Readings

1. Paul Hawken. 2017. Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reduce global warming. NY: Penguin. (choose 3 actions to mitigate climate change from the Solutions page). 
2. Read at least one of the following two:
   1. Peter Stone. 2025. Trump fossil fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn. July 20, The Guardian.
   2. Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, Coral Davenport and Megan Mineiro. 2025. Trump is gutting weather science and reducing disaster response. July 13, New York Times.

Video lecture

(Optional, but helpful; access with your EOU account)

• Climate change (pt 2)

Lecture pages

• Is climate change a social problem?
• Using climate change to understand how social problems can be complex and layered
• Americans’ consumption habit
• Outline: What to do? (summary)

Video 

• Story of Stuff
• A Crude Awakening (documentary), excerpt