Week 5: Environmental ethics

Readings

  1. Robert Bullard. 1993. Anatomy of environmental racism and the environmental justice movement. Pp 97-105 in R. Scott Frey (ed) The Environment and Society Reader. Boston: Allyn. In Canvas.
  2. Edward Abbey. 1968. Desert Solitaire (“Polemic: Industrial tourism and the national parks”). NY: Bantam. In Canvas.
  3. Jedediah Purdy. 2018. The unequal distribution of catastrophe in North Carolina. Sept 18, New Yorker Magazine. (pdf)

of possible interest (and totally optional):

  • E.O. Wilson. 2003. The Future of Life. NY: Vintage (chapter 6, ‘For the love of life’). In Canvas.
  • Renee Skelton and Vernice Miller. 2006. The Environmental Justice MovementNatural Resources Defense Council. (multiple pages, use the links)

Lecture pages

    1. Ethics
    2. Wise use vs Arnold’s view of environmentalism
    3. Points on the ethical spectrum
    4. Historical timeline (events of note)
    5. Environmental racism

 Video