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Week 5: Environmental ethics
Readings
- 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.
- Edward Abbey. 1968. Desert Solitaire (“Polemic: Industrial tourism and the national parks”). NY: Bantam. In Canvas.
- 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 Movement. Natural Resources Defense Council. (multiple pages, use the links)
Lecture pages
Video
- Wendell Berry Farming Program
- Edward Abbey on Southern Utah
- From Food, Inc. (chicken farm; organic farming)
- Greenpeace Saving Sumatra
- Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations