Thursday, July 28, 2022

Passing the torch

 Returning to MTSU, Fall 2022- 


Environmental Ethics 


PHIL 3340

If you're concerned for the health and future of "the only home we've ever known," consider registering for PHIL 3340, Environmental Ethics - TTh 2:20, JUB 202. The theme this semester: passing the torch to a new generation of environmental citizens.


We’ll read and discuss, among others…


Wendell Berry. Perhaps most known for his 1977 bestselling book, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, the writer and farmer has served as a moral beacon to Americans for half a century, warning of the dangers of consumerism, industrial agriculture, and the dissolution of rural communities. Now, as we face the greatest environmental crisis in history and grapple with deep polarization, his impassioned arguments on subjects ranging from industrial farming to technology have taken on a new urgency... Michael Pollan, “Wendell Berry is still ahead of us”


Paul Hawken. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis… Regeneration contains an extraordinary array of initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as marine protected areas, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, regenerative agriculture, forest farms, and the #1 solution for the world: electrifying everything.


Bill McKibben. Author/activist, cofounder of 350.org. The Climate Crisis: Annals of a Warming Planet. “Bill McKibben is such a heroic and consequential leader in the fight for the climate on behalf of all humankind, it's easy to lose sight of his humanity. As usual, this book is a thoughtful critique of wrong turns America has taken, but this time refreshingly and revealingly intertwined with his personal story. As a fellow former suburban boy who has also tried hard to figure out ‘what the hell happened,’ The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon was like listening to a wise old pal preach.” —Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America


Kim Stanley Robinson. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.


The Sunrise Movement. The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.


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More info at http://envirojpo.blogspot.com/, or email phil.oliver@mtsu.edu.


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