Environmental Ethics: Quiz Sep13

Friday, September 9, 2016

Quiz Sep13

Ch6

1. Who partnered in Texas to save a prairie chicken?

2. What's virtually impossible to do without taking money of questionable origin?

3. What was the "environmentalism of the poor"?

4. Who said "we should have tried to change the system and root causes"?

5. What environmental group partnered with Walmart?

6. What do we now know about fracking that weakens its case, compared to the early '90s?

7. How are some manufacturers gaming the carbon trading system?

8. What does Klein say the leader of the Environmental Defense Fund wants environmentalists to do more?

DQ

COMMENT: "Coal isn't the enemy. Carbon emissions are." 191
What kind of political leadership would it take to bring back the heady days of environmental bipartisanship? 202 Are there any Stewart Udalls in the wings? Or can the grassroots movement force bipartisanship?
What didn't Ronald Reagan understand about trees? 203
Can we pick the low-hanging fruit AND dig up the roots? 223
If you're unwilling to take on the oil companies, does that make you a non-environmentalist? 223

The Video Project

Post some lines of dialogue for our would-be viral video. If enough of us choose to participate, we'll spend class-time on this. Our goal is to finish by Sep.21, before the first debate. Participants will be rewarded with some extra runs on the scorecard.

If you missed Don's email:

...we thought it might be better to just concentrate on the issue of climate change and take any partisanship out of the picture, so we won't include any political leaders. When you're drafting your scripts think of what it will mean to you and your children, if you have any now or in the future, or other children and raise you concerns about what is going on. And some of you may want to include some positive suggestions for example economic benefits to rural Americans on having their own co-ops - that's a win-win for all of us. Terms like steward-ship, taking care of our home, leaving it better for the next generation may be something that you want to incorporate in your scripts. (Again, it's just a draft so it doesn't need to be perfect, but try to make it fit you and your personality and something you could comfortably say).

Here is my script and as I mentioned, I will be the bad guy in this video. If I do it well, I will be a very disliked person, but then if it helps the country, I can live with the abuse.

Interviewer: Sir, do you have a moment for a question?

Me: Sure, but make it quick.

Interviewer: Are you worried about how our climate is changing?

Me: No!

Interviewer: So you don't believe the climate is changing?

Me: Of course it's changing, it's hot as hell right now so would you mind if we step into the shade. (move to the shade, pause). But worried about it no. Look if I'm lucky I've got ten years to live and I can find air conditioned places in that time, so it's not my problem. When I was young I had to live under the threat of nuclear annihilation, let today's young people live under the threat of climate annihilation. It'll be good for them, build their character.

Interviewer: But aren't you worried about the sea level rising and parts of the United States going underwater.

Me: Hey, they should of thought of that when they bought waterfront property (sinister laugh). Look, I live in Tennessee and if the entire state of Florida and most of the east coast went under water, I wouldn't lose any sleep. In fact, my property value would rise. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to find some air-conditioning.

Interviewer: Thank you sir

Yours doesn't need to be that long, but hopefully, I can set the stage for some of you and Dr. Oliver in your scripts to challenge my cynicism and hypocrisy.

Also, some of you might want to consider coming up as a pair. One says something and they other agrees and elaborates or questions.

The student interviewed after me might want to begin their comment with "Wow! What a jerk!" You'll be the heroine or hero to the viewers.

Let's have some fun with this. Who knows, maybe it'll make a difference beyond the intrinsic satisfaction of creativity in a good cause.

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9/8/16, 9:04 PM “There’s no conflict between a healthy economy and a healthy planet.” - @POTUS bit.ly/2bUnxBl #ClimateHope

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RobertSeptember 13, 2016 at 11:34 PM
Coal is the enemy because it is a major producer of carbon emissions. Carbon emissions are also the enemy but most of these emissions come from the burning of coal.
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TEXTS Fall '24

First things first--a proper education

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.” ― Wendell Berry

The college project

“The American college may be considered a continuation, at the human level, of the self-education process of the earth itself: universe education, earth education, and human education are stages of development in a single unbroken process...The entire college project can be seen as that of enabling the student to understand the immense story of the universe and the role of the student in creating the next phase of the story.” --Thomas Berry, “The American College in the Ecological Age,” in The Dream of the Earth

“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
― Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.”
― Martin Keogh, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

“When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.”
― John May, The Greenpeace Story

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
― T.S. Eliot

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the
single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this
world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the
environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”
― Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.”
― Ivan Illich

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