Returning to MTSU, Fall 2018-
Environmental Ethics
PHIL 3340
If you're interested
in/concerned about the health and future of "the only home we've ever
known," consider registering for PHIL 3340, Environmental Ethics - TTh 2:20, JUB
202. More info at http://envirojpo.blogspot.com/,
or email phil.oliver@mtsu.edu.
The environment is under siege. Its current administrator is "giving even ostentatious polluters a reprieve." (Margot Talbot, "Dirty Politics"-New Yorker 4.2.18)
The environment is under siege. Its current administrator is "giving even ostentatious polluters a reprieve." (Margot Talbot, "Dirty Politics"-New Yorker 4.2.18)
Former EPA head William Ruckelshaus, who worked for GOP Presidents Nixon and Reagan, says Scott Pruitt and his staff "don't fundamentally agree with the mission of the agency."
Can the vital mission
of protecting our home be revived and sustained? How can we all act, now, to safeguard it against this and
future eco-destructive administrations? A hopeful EPA veteran says: “'It might
take a while to 'rebuild capacity' after Pruitt. But it [will] be done. The
public is expecting us to protect the planet. Pruitt is a temporary interloper. We
are the real agency.”
Are we with him?
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Texts include
Texts include
- Love Earth Now: The Power of Doing One Thing Every Day, by Cheryl Leutjen-"what you can do right now that will mean more to the world than all that power and influence can buy"
- No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, by Naomi Klein-"Trump's reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment... Our historical moment demands a credible and inspiring “yes,” that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.
- Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben-“Is it a surprise that the debut novel from one of our best-known environmental activists focuses on grassroots resistance?"... "may well be the lost sequel to Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang..."
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