Envs
4950 Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies, Spring 2020
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last update: January 16, 2020
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
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. (Click
here for a cached version.)
- "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. Fossil Fuels / Climate
- "Australia
Shows Us the Road to Hell: The political reaction is scarier than the fires."
By Paul Krugman. The New York Times, January 9, 2020.
- "How
Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate: Critics see a
concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert
attention from climate change." By Damien Cave. The New York Times,
January 8, 2020.
- "How
Trump’s war on science is borrowing from the tobacco industry playbook: Calls
for transparency at the EPA are a smokescreen." By David Merritt Johns
and Karen Levy. The Washington Post, Dec. 13, 2019. Click here
for a cached version.
- "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/
- "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/
D. 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
E. 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
F. Other Issues
- "The Incredible True Story of
the Henrietta C." By Earl Swift. Outside
Magazine, June 20, 2018.
- "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/