Environmental Politics

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Environmental Politics

• January 2004

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Agenda

• Introductions
• Preliminary Remarks
• Information about the course and your
  participation in it
• An opportunity to discuss yesterday's video
• An opportunity to discuss todays reading.

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Preliminary Remarks

• Spaceship Earth
• Progress
• Ecosystem People
• Biosphere People
• Renaissance Man
• Ecology
• This Course
• Economics Politics
• Why Bother?

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The First Principle of Ecology

• When we try to pick anything out by itself, we
  find it hitched to everything else in the
  universe. -- John Muir

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Walt Kelly Earth Day Poster, 1970
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"The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fked."
-- George Carlin
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Climate Change in Florida
20,000 years ago
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Climate Change in Florida
if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (17 feet)
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Climate Change in Florida
if the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (170 feet)
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Gary Larson on Climate Change

• "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. The
  world's climates are changing, the mammals are
  taking over, and we all have a brain about the
  size of a walnut."