SLIDE 1 Environmental Ethics and Land Management ENVR E-120
http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120 Timothy C. Weiskel
Harvard University Extension School Fall Semester 2012
The Economics of Market Scarcity vs. The Economics of Natural Abundance
The Necessary Paradigm Shift for Sustainability
Discussion Session 11 14 November 2012
Some Background Notes on …
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/a-river-of- waste-the-hazardous-truth-about-factory-farms/
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CCTV – Channel 9 - 4:30pm Sunday, 18 November or 12:00 midnight, 19 November.
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Specific skills – to be learned and practiced in this course: we will need to earn how to:
Identify moral and ethical arguments forwarded in the realms of environment and public policy. Analyze these arguments. Evaluate these arguments (that is, make judgments about relative merit). Formulate your own arguments in response to the available logic in reference to specific problems. Articulate your moral argument effectively. and Persuade those who remain unconvinced.
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Specific skills – to be learned and practiced in this course: we will need to earn how to:
Identify moral and ethical arguments forwarded in the realms of environment and public policy. Analyze these arguments. Evaluate these arguments (that is, make judgments about relative merit). Formulate your own arguments in response to the available logic in reference to specific problems. Articulate your moral argument effectively. and Persuade those who remain unconvinced.
SLIDE 6 The first step in “evaluating” anything is to evaluate the source material you have about the phenomena… This requires a critique of sources…that is, a critical evaluation
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SLIDE 7 Tea? or Coffee?
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The Tea Party Movement
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The Tea Party Movement
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Tea? or Coffee?
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The Tea Party Movement
Who is behind the “Tea Party?”
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http://youtu.be/0JjQxPJOAfg
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http://youtu.be/d_Ht-rF93Yc
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http://youtu.be/d_Ht-rF93Yc http://youtu.be/k-cL3odTioM
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Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed“ (Full)
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http://youtu.be/3AnB8MuQ6DU
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"(Astro)Turf Wars - Trailer," YouTube - astroturfwars, (29 September 2010).
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"Public Denied Access to "Energy Citizen" Big Oil Company Picnic," YouTube - PublicCitizenInc, (20 August 2009).
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"Uncloaking the Koch Brothers, Tea Party," YouTube - RTAmerica, (31 January 2011).
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Tea? or Coffee?
Who is behind the “Coffee Party?”
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Tea? or Coffee?
Who is behind the “Coffee Party?”
(a small set of billionaires)
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http://youtu.be/lO_5HvnFEv0
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"10,000 Surround White House to Protest Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline," YouTube - democracynow, (7 November 2011).
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Perhaps its time to wake up and smell the coffee…”
SLIDE 33 Tea? or Coffee?
VS
The Tea Party Movement
SLIDE 34 Tea? or Coffee?
VS
The Tea Party Movement
Supports the 1% Supports the 99%
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Evaluate the Difference Between America’s Astro-turf and Grassroots Movements
You will need to be able to evaluate the differences between these kinds
- f movements to understand the differences between the market
economics of scarcity vs the economics of natural abundance.
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The Tea Party Movement
Supports the 1% Supports the 99%
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There is a lot at stake in your ability to get this analysis and evaluation correct…in order for us to avoid the Cree Indian Prophecy:
SLIDE 37 Environmental Ethics and Land Management ENVR E-120
http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120 Timothy C. Weiskel
Harvard University Extension School Fall Semester 2012
The Economics of Market Scarcity vs. The Economics of Natural Abundance
The Necessary Paradigm Shift for Sustainability
Discussion Session 11 14 November 2012
Some Background Notes on …
SLIDE 38 Environmental Ethics and Land Management ENVR E-120
http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120 Timothy C. Weiskel
Harvard University Extension School Fall Semester 2012
The Economics of Market Scarcity vs. The Economics of Natural Abundance
Manufactured Scarcities vs. Natural Limts
Discussion Session 11 14 November 2012
Some Background Notes on ….
