Readings

1. Garrett Hardin. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162: 1243-1248. In Canvas.
2. Jared Diamond. 2008. What’s your consumption factor? New York Times, Jan 2.
3. Elizabeth Kolbert. 2014. The Sixth Extinction. NY: Bloomsbury (Prologue). In Canvas.
4. Read two of the following three articles:
   1. Tara Button. 2018. A Life Less Throwaway. NY: Ten Speed Press (chapter 5). In Canvas.
   2. William Catton. 1998. Malthus: Now more relevant than ever. Population Institute Canada.
   3. Daisy Dunne, Tom Prater and Joe Goodman. 2020. Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? CarbonBrief.org (here as an example of how to think about carbon footprints, not to judge people’s diets).

Video lectures

• The Earth’s resources and human population growth

Lecture pages

• Natural resources–a primer
• Who’s using up the world’s resources?
• Have humans overshot their carrying capacity?
• Americans’ relationship with stuff
• Outline

Video

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