Transcript Environmental Politics

Environmental Politics
January 2004
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.
Preliminary Remarks
• Spaceship Earth
• Progress
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– Ecosystem People
– Biosphere People
Renaissance Man
Ecology
This Course
Economics & Politics
Why Bother?
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
Walt Kelly:
Earth Day
Poster, 1970
"The planet
is fine.
The PEOPLE
are f**ked."
-- George Carlin
Climate Change in Florida
20,000 years ago
Climate Change in Florida
if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (17 feet)
Climate Change in Florida
if the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (170 feet)
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."