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4950 Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies, Spring 2019
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last update: January 30, 2019
Notes:
- Here are various texts and sites that
will interest students in the course. These are not all necessarily assigned readings.
For week-by-week reading assignments, see "Calendar," above.
- I will update this site periodically throughout
the semester. If you have any suggestions for additional links, please send me
an email. -- KOD, instructor --odonnell@etsu.edu
I. Readings, Organized Loosely by Topic
A. Environmental Studies
- "What is Environmental Studies?"
Michael E. Soule and Daniel Press. BioScience 48, 5 (May
1998): 397-405. webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mmaniate/es/soule.pdf
- "Environmental Sciences vs. Studies." The
University of Wisconsin Environmental Sciences Major website. No
date. envirosci.cals.wisc.edu/environmental-sciences-vs-studies/
- "Environmental Studies" Wikipedia
article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_studies
B. Conservation
- "Can the World Really Set Aside Half
of the Planet for Wildlife? The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O.
Wilson has an audacious vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction
event." By Tony Hiss. Smithsonian Magazine, September
2014. Online: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/
C. Extinction
- "The Nastiest Feud in Science: A
Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction
was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions.
But she’s reopened that debate." By Bianca Bosker. The Atlantic
Monthly, September 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/
D. Fossil Fuels / Climate
- "The Insect Apocalypse is
Here." By Brooke Jarvis. The New York Times
Magazine, November 27, 2018. www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html
- "Losing Earth: The Decade We
Almost Stopped Climate Change." By Nathaniel Rich. Photographs
and Videos by George Steinmetz. The New York Times Magazine, August
1, 2018. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
- "Mountain Valley Pipeline
protesters targeted by Virginia anti-terrorism center: Monitoring of activists
in Virginia is part of a growing national trend." By Mark Hand. ThinkProgress dot org, JUN 8, 2018. thinkprogress.org/state-police-work-with-anti-terrorism-center-to-spy-on-pipeline-protesters-7cf02f5be875/
- "How Much Has ‘Climate Change’ Been
Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A Lot." By Coral Davenport. The New York Times, January 10, 2018. www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html
- "The Siege of Miami: As temperatures
climb, so, too, will sea levels." By Elizabeth Kolbert. The
New Yorker, December 21 & 28, 2015. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-miami
- "Climate Catastrophe, Coming Even
Sooner?" By Elizabeth Kolbert. The New Yorker,
March 31, 2016. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/climate-catastrophe-coming-even-sooner
- "‘Climate Change Is Real’: Many U.S.
Companies Lament Paris Accord Exit." By Daniel Victor. The New York Times,
June 1, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/business/climate-change-tesla-corporations-paris-accord.html
- "How Climate Change Deniers Rise
to the Top in Google Searches." By Hiroko Tabuchi. The New York Times, Dec.
29, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/climate/google-search-climate-change.html
- "We had all better hope these scientists
are wrong about the planet’s future." By Chris
Mooney. The Washington Post, March 22, 2016. www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/22/we-had-all-better-hope-these-scientists-are-wrong-about-the-planets-future/
- "Global Warming's Terrifying New
Math: Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear
who the real enemy is." Bill McKibben. Rolling Stone Magazine,
July 19, 2012. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
- "Climate of Doubt: Frontline goes
inside the groups who shifted the direction of the climate change debate."
Runtime: 53:46. October 23, 2012. WGBH Blueridge PBS. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/
E. Food Systems
- "Stop Making Us Guinea Pigs [about
GMO Agriculture and the WHO study of glyphosate]." By Mark
Bittman. The New York Times Opinion Pages. March
25, 2015. www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/opinion/stop-making-us-guinea-pigs.html
- "Why Do G.M.O.’s Need Protection?"
By Mark Bittman. New York Times online, April 2, 2013. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/why-do-g-m-o-s-need-protection/
- "Should You Eat Chicken? [Contributing
Op-Ed Writer]." By Mark Bittman. The New York Times, October 15,
2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/opinion/bittman-should-you-eat-chicken.html
F. Rachel Carson
- "Denial Rides Again: The Revisionist
Attack on Rachel Carson." Chapter 7 of Merchants of
Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke
to Global Warming. By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. Bloomsbury
Press, 2010. Pages 216-239. Posted online at a private
blog: beforeness.tumblr.com/post/97396882093/denial-rides-again-the-revisionist-attack-on
- "Margaret Atwood: Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring, 50 years on." By Margaret Atwood. The Guardian [Manchester,
England]. Friday, December 7, 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/why-rachel-carson-is-a-saint
- "Rehabilitating Carson: Why do some
people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for millions of malaria deaths?"
By John Quiggin. Prospect Magazine, May 24, 2008. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcarson/
- ''Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?:
The creation of an anti-environmental myth.'' Aaron Swartz, ''Extra!''
[F.A.I.R.], September/October, 2007.
- RachelWasWrong.org. "Uncovering Silent
Spring's Deadly Consequences," by the Competitive Enterprise Institute
G. Other Issues
- "The Violent Remaking of Appalachia:
When mining a century’s worth of energy means ruining a landscape for millions
of years." By Jedediah Purdy. The Atlantic
Monthly, March 21, 2016. www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-violent-remaking-of-appalachia/474603/
- "Researchers Propose Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’
Age of Humans Began With Fallout and Plastics." By Andrew
Revkin. New York Times online, January 15,
2015. dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/researchers-propose-earths-anthropocene-age-of-humans-began-with-fallout-and-plastics/
- "Genetically Modified Forest Planned
for U.S. Southeast: International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to
transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine
with genetically engineered eucalyptus." By Paul Voosen. Scientific
American, Jan 29, 2010. www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eucalyptus-genetically-modified-pine-tree-southwest-forest
- "Officials Don’t Really Know How
Dangerous the Chemical Spilled in West Virginia Is: Authorities have virtually no
way of regulating many industrial chemicals. The latest spill could change that."
By Bryan Walsh. Time Magazine online, Jan. 14, 2014. science.time.com/2014/01/14/how-dangerous-is-chemical-spilled-in-west-virginia/
- "Our Toxicity Experiment in West
Virginia." Posted by Deborah Blum, January 18, 2014. "Wired Science Blogs,"
at Wired Magazine online. www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/chemistry-experiments-west-virginia-dont-try-home/
II. Important Web Sites and Blogs
- Climate Progress. "A liberal blog
on the science, solutions, and politics of climate change. Also offers related
links." Edited by Joseph Romm. climateprogress.org
- Grist.org.
Environmental journalism.
- Orion Magazine. One of America's premier
venues for nature writing and environmental policy essays.