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Environmental Politics

Environmental Politics. January 2004. Agenda. Introductions Preliminary Remarks I nformation about the course and your participation in it An opportunity to discuss yesterday's video An opportunity to discuss today’s reading. Preliminary Remarks. Spaceship Earth Progress

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Environmental Politics

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  1. Environmental Politics January 2004

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

  3. Preliminary Remarks • Spaceship Earth • Progress • Ecosystem People • Biosphere People • Renaissance Man • Ecology • This Course • Economics & Politics • Why Bother?

  4. 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

  5. Walt Kelly: Earth Day Poster, 1970

  6. "The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are f**ked." -- George Carlin

  7. Climate Change in Florida 20,000 years ago

  8. Climate Change in Florida if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (17 feet)

  9. Climate Change in Florida if the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (170 feet)

  10. 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."

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