Today's Goal

• Understand some basics about environmentalism and environmental ethics
• Be able to define the following concepts
• Instrumental and Intrinsic Value
• Anthropocentrism
• Ecology
• Preservation
• Conservation
• Sustainability

Starter (verbal pair share):  React to the video from PEAK meeting.  How does this relate to our project?  What ideological assumptions is the speaker making?  Are her ideas problematic in any way?



Video:  The Overview Effect
Key Question: How has our relationship with Earth changed in the last 50 years?



Lecture:  Intro to Environmental Ethics, Part 1



Reading for Quiz:  Rachel Carson's Commencement Address from Scripps College, 1962.  ADVICE:  annotate for the concepts we learned about today, as well as any connections you see to her work to Leopold's land ethic and/or Chief Seattle's speech.

TO DO:
Read Rachel Carson
Review Chief Seattle speech
Revise Project (draft due Friday)
If you have a complete draft for me that has been revised since peer critique, go ahead and send it!