Environmental Ethics

PHIL 3340 Environmental Ethics-Supporting the philosophical study of environmental issues at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond...

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PHIL 3340 scheduled to return to MTSU Fall 2026... DEC 6 Final blogpost (final draft) due. Post earlier for constructive feedback... Posting will close after Dec.6. If you are unable to post, send your report directly to me - phil.oliver@mtsu.edu - and include footnotes to all terms you intended to link... A NOTE ON OUR TEXTS. This is an ambitious reading schedule. Read what you can, prioritizing the texts in descending order: first-listed assignment for each class gets top priority, second gets 2d, and so on... Fall 2024: HONORS BUILDING 116, T/Th 4:20 pm

Interconnected Planet (K. Modine)-please read and comment

  • New Beginnings
  • Aldo Leopold
  • “Viva La RĂ©sistance”
  • “You Must Not Lose Faith In Humanity”
  • Facing The Storm

The Crucial Years-Bill McKibben

  • Trying Their Darnedest to Make America Filthy Again
  • Team Trump tries to spread the crazy abroad
  • Special Vermont Resistance edition
  • Any fool can break things
  • Climate superpowers

TEXTS Fall '24

Erle C. Ellis, Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction (EE)... Paul Hawken, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (PH)... William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (MacA) ... Bill McKibben, ed., American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (McK)... Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (GT)... David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (WW)... For more information contact Dr. Oliver – phil.oliver@mtsu.edu

Office hours

Fall 2024: Tue/Thur 11 am to 1 pm by appt (in person or via Zoom; on campus (in 300 JUB or at another designated location, call to confirm location before coming in)... (615) 898-2050... (615) 525-7865-only during office hours please. Other days on Zoom, by appointment. Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu-James Union Building 300 James Union Building

Syllabus

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Make the right kind

Make the right kind
Greta & Jane

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

Climb into the world

"Inscendence" - the impulse not to rise above the world (transcendence) but to climb into it, seek its core. Thomas Berry, via Robert Macfarlane

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

Environmental hubris

“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the
more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an organism, or of
an organism/environment field, as governing or ruling others.” Alan Watts

The Weekly Anthropocene

  • The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, Bringing Plug-In Solar to America
  • The Weekly Anthropocene, March 12, 2025
  • Missives from Mesoamerica #1: At the Mountains of Monarchs
  • The Weekly Anthropocene, March 5 2025
  • The Future of AI and Energy

Up@dawn

  • 2025 Presidential Address, William James Society
  • WJS in DC
  • Documenting the days
  • Berlin seminar (via Zoom) on John Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism
  • Hold on, keep going

Up@dawn 2.0

  • 2025 Presidential Address, William James Society
  • WJS in DC
  • Documenting the days
  • Berlin seminar (via Zoom) on John Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism
  • Hold on, keep going

Featured Post

Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything"

“Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.” Thus spoke President Kennedy in a 1...

350.org

  • Cracks in the Fossil Fueled-Facade: March 2025
  • Solutions Series: Justice
  • This International Women’s Day, Let’s Recognize the Women Leading the Fight for Our Planet
  • Renewable Energy Explained: Solar Energy
  • European governments are not broke, they’re simply siding with billionaires

Nature World News : Environment

  • Tourism Is A Whole Lot Worse For The Environment Than Thought Before
  • Scientists Use Vinegar to Increase Drought Tolerance of Plants, Here's How
  • 'Solar Paint' Prototype Introduced to Help Homes Generate Clean Energy
  • Are Neonicotinoids Killing You? Traces of Potentially Deadly Pesticides Found in US Drinking Water
  • This 40000-Year-Old Cranium in Portugal Blurs the Line of Evolution

Grist

  • Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households
  • ‘Our people are hungry’: What federal food aid cuts mean in a warming world
  • Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
  • The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
  • A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month

Environment

  • A Lifeboat to London for Darwin’s Frogs
  • Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
  • E.P.A. Offers No New Evidence in Battle Over $20 Billion in Climate Grants
  • In ‘Weather Girl,’ Climate Change Sets Off a Meltdown
  • The Republicans Pushing Trump to Save Biden’s Clean Energy Tax Credits

Environment | The Guardian

  • Minister defends disability benefit cuts, saying you can’t ‘tax and borrow your way out of need to reform state’ – UK politics live
  • Yes, ball games: drive to take down signs warning against play begins in London
  • Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns
  • Did you catch that? On the boats with Cornish fishers – in pictures
  • ‘Heartbreaking’: poisoning suspected after mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas in Newcastle

Long Now

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Books

  • American Earth '09
  • An Inconvenient Truth '07
  • Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise
  • Blessed Unrest '12
  • Botany of Desire '07
  • Bridge at the Edge of the World '12
  • Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet
  • Ecotopia '12
  • Ecotopia Emerging
  • End of Nature '07
  • Environmental Ethics (Andrew Light)
  • Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions
  • Ethics of Climate Change '09
  • Ethics of What We Eat '09
  • Field Notes From A Catastrophe '07
  • Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
  • Global Warming Reader '12
  • Green Space, Green Time
  • Greening of America
  • Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy
  • Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence '11
  • Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth '11
  • Omnivore's Dilemma
  • Primal Roots of American Philosophy
  • Rebuild the Dream '12
  • Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge '11
  • Revenge of Gaia
  • The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
  • Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning '11
  • Whole Earth Discipline '11
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't." Mark Twain

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury
...ALSO see "Some past texts"...

More books

  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
  • Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
  • BIll McKibben previews
  • Climate change: a very short introduction
  • Environmental fiction: a reading list to save the world (Bookriot)
  • No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein
  • Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate by Naomi Klein

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Contributors

  • Gary Wedgewood
  • Phil

Up@dawn the podcast

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This podcast (you can subscribe at iTunes) includes posts from my blogs and additional spontaneous musings, usually related to our course content

Delight Springs

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Not just for April anymore

Not just for April anymore

Environmental Ethics Links

  • 2121-What our cities could look like (Natl Geog)
  • 24 reasons to choose hope (Climate Reality)
  • 350.org (Bill McKibben's "global movement")
  • Al Gore's optimism (TED)
  • America's first offshore windfarm
  • Bjorn Lomborg
  • Callenbach's (posthumous ) Epistle to the Ecotopians
  • Can Dirt Save the Earth? (nyt mag Apr'18)
  • Carbon Capture, by Jonathan Franzen
  • Cli-fi (climate fiction)
  • Cli-fi blog by Dan Bloom
  • Cli-Fi REPORT: 50+ academic & media links:
  • Cli-fi-best books sel. by Dan Bloom
  • Climate & environment in nyt
  • Climate Debate Daily
  • Climate science videos: It's okay to be smart
  • Daily Climate
  • Dot Earth (Andrew Revkin's climate blog)
  • E.O. Wilson calls for a "grand retreat"
  • Eco-fiction
  • Embarrassing Photos of Me, Thanks to My Right-Wing Stalkers-Bill McKibben
  • English village leads in climate action
  • Food & climate Q&A
  • GOP candidates on climate change
  • Green burial
  • How Haslam in reshaping TN environmental rules
  • How to reduce your carbon footprint (nyt)
  • How to talk to a climate skeptic (Grist)
  • How trees "talk" to each other
  • In defense of hope (& Rebecca Solnit)
  • IPCC Intergovernmental panel on climate change
  • Jimmy Kimmel vs. climate deniers
  • Jy16 ottest month ever
  • McKibben's stalkers
  • Michael Chabon's "Omega Glory"
  • Myths about global warming and climate change
  • Orion ("America's finest environmental magazine")
  • Podcasts on environmental issues
  • Prescription: Play Outdoors
  • Real Climate
  • Reversing course on Trump's environmental damage (nyt)
  • Stewart Brand's Whole Earth (Guardian)
  • The Climate of Man, by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Conversation/environment: "academic rigor + journalistic flair"
  • The Dying Sea, by Dana Goodyear
  • The End of Ice, by Dexter Filkins
  • The Great Oasis, by Burkhard Bilger
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers, rev by Barbara Kingsolver
  • These five cuisines are easier on the planet (nyt)

Food Ethics

Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) http://michaelpollan.com/
5/14/15, 10:57 AM
All the lectures and talks from Edible Education 101 are now online. All told, a great introduction to food politics bit.ly/1Fausvx

"Small changes to combat climate change"

A Guide to Becoming a Tree Hugger

Eat More Plants to Improve Health, Combat Climate Change

Infographic We all want to help the planet. But how?

15 Tips to Make Your Home More Green

The Top Green Home Building Techniques

The Green Guide to Downsizing: How to Modify Your Home for More Eco-Conscious Living

Incorporating ‘Green’ Into Your Business Practices

Culinary Resources for Vegetarianism

5 Steps To Become An Eco-Friendly Pet Parent

jennifer@publichealthlibrary.org

Bioethics

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“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

Final report blog post

OPEN YOUR EMAIL AUTHOR INVITATION, then look for the NEW POST tab in the upper right on our blogsite (do NOT create a new blog, post your final report on our site)... The topic should complement, clarify, and elaborate on some central aspect of your final presentation. Share and defend your own view(s), if you have any. Address one or more of your discussion questions.... Aim for a minimum of 1,000 words... Include relevant links (at least half a dozen or so), embeds (a couple), and graphics (one or two): let me know if you need instruction on how to do it... When referencing texts we've read in the course, cite page #s and abbreviations (GT=Greta's Climate Book, McK=McKibben's American Earth, etc.)... Make sure your post has formatted correctly. If not, use the Clear formatting command in the toolbar in the upper right, above, to fix it... You can continue to edit and revise until the final draft is due...

Drunk

"Solvitur ambulando"

Peripatetics

The original peripatetics were Aristotle's students at the Lyceum, back in the day. Legend has it that they didn't sit indoors in orderly rows like students nowadays, but instead roamed the grounds in small groups, walking-and-talking philosophy. I like their style, apocryphal or not.It’s a model we’ll emulate when the weather is nice enough, outdoors. They're also why I'm developing a Study Abroad course that will involve walking and talking in England beginning in the summer of '17. Stay tuned for more info on that.

Previously

FALL '24. AUG 27 Introductions: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you consider to be YOUR environment? How does that relate to nature, the climate, and society? Do you think most college-age students are concerned about the present and future condition of the environment? Are you optimistic /pessimistic/melioristic about the future?... AUG 29 EE preface, 1-2 (Origins, Earth System). GT 1.1--1.4 (thru Civilization and Extinction). WW I (Cascades)... == FALL '22. Final presentations are concluded, final reports should now all be posted. If you've neglected to post, or have been unable to do so, email it directly to me - phil.oliver@mtsu.edu... Have a good break. Hope to see you in a future class. If you're graduating, good luck. Keep in touch! ...Your author status remains intact, feel free to continue sharing environmental content if you wish. Exam OPTION due DEC 2, along with final report BLOG POST complementing your presentation (but post an early draft if you'd like potentially constructive feedback)... NOV 29 EXAM (covering questions posted since OCT 13-audio review coming soon, watch this space) OR (1) your posted review of Ministry for the Future and response to KSR's view from 2071, or (2) a posted essay on what you consider the two or three best ideas in MF and Regeneration, or (3) a posted essay on the Sunrise Movement and whether you think the rising generation will adequately engage the climate crisis... FINAL REPORT PRESENTATION Liam.... Re: REPORT PRESENTATIONS-unless you've heard otherwise from me, you received all 25 available points... AUG 23 Introductions-Post your response to these questions, interpreted any way you like: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you consider to be your environment? How does that relate to nature, the climate, and society? Do you think most college-age students are concerned about the present and future condition of the environment? Are you optimistic about the future? Read and comment on your classmates' introductions... AUG 25 Wendell Berry (WB) -37 (Intro, A Native Hill)... 1.13pc;">
DEC
T 8 Final blogpost due ("Write your script for Message From the Future III, after reviewing I & II (and Bill McKibben's view from 2050, if you like...")

Post earlier draft for potentially-constructive feedback... How to embed links etc. -- please avoid URL addresses in the body of your post.

If you've not yet done so, please post your semester's point total(excluding midterm & final) ASAP (or email me directly).
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Remote Office Hours Fall 2020: MW 4-5, TTh 4-5:30. Call or text (615) 525-7865 during these times (not at other times, please), indicate if you wish to arrange a private Zoom session. Syllabus 2020

W 25 - Ed Craig, video & discussion. Last Day of Class-post your final weekly essay, comments, and points total (not including blog post scores) by Wednesday night, so you can have a thankful holiday.

Thanksgiving

Listen to Zach: video on when speaking, at least--please dress (and aim your camera) appropriately... audio on except when there's excessive ambient noise/conversation/coughing in your neighborhood.

When posting your weekly summary, please include an updated grand total of how many points you think you've earned all semester so far.

Looking for more comments from you all, please. Much as I enjoy asking questions, I more enjoy your responses.

Please post your weekly essays, comments, and online activity summaries by Thursday midnight each week (I need Fridays to catch up!)... But I hope you'll not wait 'til the 11th hour, we need the benefit of your wisdom prior to and (thence) during class.

If we ever have a prolonged interruption of broadband service during class, try re-connecting via phone.
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Remote Office Hours Fall 2020: MW 4-5, TTh 4-5:30. Call or text (615) 525-7865 during these times (not at other times, please), indicate if you wish to arrange a private Zoom session.
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Environmental Ethics (PHIL 3340) returns to MTSU as a remote course (due to the COVID pandemic) Fall 2020. We will NOT meet in Peck Hall 206, the original classroom designation. Most of our online activity will happen here (not on D2L) and on Zoom, MW 3-4 (meeting ID & password tba, via email and later in this space). Syllabus 2020... Introductions...

OLD QUESTIONS:
W 26 EE 1-2 Questions... M 31 EE 3-4 Questions... W 2 Questions... W9...

ZOOM at 2:30 pm MW. Recordings available on request.
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Required Texts: Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield; Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben; On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein; The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren

Recommended: The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World by James Garvey; Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich; The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

Old announcements:
M 14 - Hope Jahren (HJ), The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here - Part One (-p.23). Questions
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It's been brought to my attention that one of us has been "reported... and investigated" for a remark posted on our site and presumably passed along to investigators by another of us. (I can't believe we're being randomly monitored.) The remark in question, though rhetorically excessive, was in context clearly not literal and did not merit reporting or investigation, or really any external attention whatsover. I'm sure the matter will end there, and I'd prefer to not bring it up at all... but the unfortunate lingering consequence is that at least one of us now "no longer feel[s] comfortable sharing my opinion in class." That's more than regrettable, it undermines our academic freedom. I would like to trust that, going forward, we'll all appreciate the value of free and uninhibited expression in class. Keyword: trust.

W 26 EE 1-2. Zoom at 3 pm-Recording (Passcode: Fj0BR+DQ) (see Tuesday's emailed instructions [which I understand will be found in your D2L mail] or request from phil.oliver@mtsu.edu).. Look for my questions, and pose (& comment on) your own. (I'll always post questions pertaining to the assigned readings, and encourage you to do the same.)

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I gave you guys the wrong Meeting ID... (no wonder I got emails indicating that people were waiting for me at all hours!) - Check your Tuesday morning email for the correct ID. Sorry about that. jpo
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