Schedule for Environmental Ethics, Hettinger, Spring 2005
Introduction
- •Jan 13: Class introduction, distribution of syllabus and schedule of assignments
How Serious Are Environmental Problems?
- •Jan 18: Meadows et al., "From Beyond the Limits" Text 80-91
- "Is There an Environmental Crisis" Text 59-60
- "Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases" Text 285
- "Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gases" Text 519
- "Overpopulation or Overconsumption?" Text 435-36
- •Jan 20: Julian Simon, "Natural Resources are Infinite" Text 60-65
- Ron Arnold, "Philosophical Father of Wise Use Movement" Packet 1-2 and "Wise Use" Text 362-363
Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
- •Jan 25: William Baxter, "The Case for Optimal Pollution" Text 274-278
- •Jan 27: Peter Wenz, "Just Garbage," Text 449-456
Environmental Ethics and Animals (Sentiocentrism)
- •Feb 1: Video: "The Witness" (43 minutes)
- •Feb 3: Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal" Text 187-195
- •Feb 8: Oral Presentations (1) on Human Uses of Animals
- •"Factory Farms" Text 215 and Joby Warrick, "'They Die Piece by Piece'; In Overtaxed Plants,
Humane Treatment of Cattle Is Often a Battle Lost," Washington Post (4/10/01, p. A1) Packet 3-6
- •S. Waxman, "Livid Over Liver," Washington Post (12/26/94: A32) Packet 7
- •David Barboza, "Animal Welfare's Unexpected Allies" New York Times (6/25/03: C1) available
on the web at : https://www.sentientbeings.org/media_purdue.htm Packet 8-10
- •Sierra, "Can You Eat Meat and Consider Yourself an Environmentalist?" Sierra Magazine
(Nov/Dec 1991: 122) Packet 11
- •Animal Experimentation: "Animal Research -- LD50" Text 215 and "Head-Injury Research Using
Monkeys" Packet 12
- •Hunting: Douglas Chadwick, "The American Hunting Myth" Orion Nature Quarterly 5,4 (Autumn
1986: 54-57) Packet 13-14
- •Circuses and Zoos: Stephen Bostock's review "Animals in Circuses and Zoos: Chiron's world?"
Packet 15-16
- For graphic pictures see: https://members.fortunecity.com/ricardo005/Ricardo4you/id5.html
https://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_video.htm
- For Temple Grandin's web site (how to improve animal slaughter): https://www.grandin.com/
- •Feb 10: Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights," Text 196-202>
- •Feb 15: Michael Pollan, "An Animal's Place" New York Times (Magazine?) posted 01/04/03; On Web at:
https://www.nehbc.org/pollan2.html, Packet 17-32
- •Feb 17: Carl Cohen, "The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research" Text 301-307
- •Feb 22: David Degrazia, from Animal Rights, Ch 3 and Ch 4 (Oxford, 2002: p. 39-66; David DeGrazia
copyright): "What Animals Are Like and the Harms of Suffering, Confinement, and Death" Packet 33-47
- •Feb 24: Dale Jamieson, "Zoos Revisited" (from Morality's Progress, Oxford 2002: 176-89), Packet 48-54
- •Possible Video: Animals in Captivity: (1997 documentary; 60 min.)
- •Mar 1: Brian Luke, "A Critical Analysis of Hunter's Ethics" Text 307-317
- •Possible Video: "Hunting in America"
SPRING BREAK
- •Mar 15: Mark Sagoff, Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce, Text p.
317-22
- •Possible Video: Life on Earth Series, "The Hunters and the Hunted"
Biocentric Individualism
- •Mar 17: Paul Taylor, "The Ethics of Respect for Nature" from Paul Taylor, "The Ethics of Respect for
Nature" Environmental Ethics, Vol 3, Fall 1981, pp. 197-218. Packet 55-67
- •Mar 22: Paul Taylor, "Priority Principles," from Paul Taylor, Respect for Nature (Princeton Univ. Press,
1986), pp. 263-287 Packet 68-79
Ecocentric Holism
- •Mar 24: Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic" Text 218-227
PAPER DESCRIPTION DUE, Friday, March 25th, 3pm, 14 Glebe Mailbox
- •Mar 29: Oral Presentations (2) on Ecocentric Holism vs. Individualism
- •Roger Caras, "There are Two Ways of Looking at it" Packet 80-81
- •Restoring Lynx to Colorado, Packet 82
- •"Breeding Endangered Species" Text 323 and "California Condor Restoration" Packet 83
- •"Species and Individuals" Text 216 and "Restoring Yellowstone Wolves" Packet 84
- •E. Converse, "Shooting wolves, restoring nature, and respect for individual animal life" Packet 85
- •"Harming Plentiful Species to Protect Endangered Species" Packet 86
- •"Goats versus Ecosystems" (from Frederik Kaufman, Foundations of Env. Philosophy, McGraw
Hill 2003, p. 313), Packet 87
The Natural and Human Management
- •Mar 31: Martin Krieger, "What is Wrong with Plastic Trees?" Text 145-156
- •Apr 5: Oral Presentations (3) on the Meaning and Value of the Natural
- •Space billboards, spray painting roadside rocks, and engraving names onto sea turtles Packet 88-90
- •Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature?"(from Holmes Rolston, Conserving Natural Value
Columbia, 1994: 197), "More on McKibben," and "Climbers clear trash from Everest" Packet 91-92
- •"Scientists study natural regulation of Yellowstone Park" Packet 93
- •"Saving a drowning buffalo or letting nature take its course?" (From Christopher Stone, Earth and
Other Ethics Harper & Rowe, 1987: 155-56), Packet 94
- •Managing for naturalness in Yellowstone: "Yellowstone National Park considering removing
'exotic' mountain goats" and "Yellowstone wolves being trained to avoid cattle" Packet 95
- •Sierra, "To What Extent Should Humans Manage Nature If At All?" Packet 96
- •"Managing The Planet" (from Holmes Rolston, Conserving Natural Value, Columbia, 1994: 223-228) Packet 97-100
Wilderness
- •Apr 7: Sandra Hinchman, "Endangered Species, Endangered Culture: Native Resistance to Industrializing
the Arctic" USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-27. 2003, pp. 77-84 Copied from and available
on the web at: https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p027/rmrs_p027_077_084.pdf Packet 101-108
- •Case Study: Oil, Alaska and the Arctic Refuge
- •Apr 12: Oral Presentation (4) on Wilderness
- •"Yellowstone park to ban electronic wildlife-tracking gear" and "Should travelers in the wild be
rescued? Even at public expense?" Packet 109
- •"Dams in Wild Areas: Hetch Hetchy and Glen Canyon" Text 392-393 and "Should Lake Powell
be drained?" Packet 110
- •"Political ramifications of the definition of wilderness" Packet 111 "Boundary Waters Canoe
Area" Text 393
- •Tom Kenworthy, "Blazing Utah Trails to Block a Washington Monument" Packet 112-113
- •"Cars in Yosemite" Text 393 and "Yosemite plans to take out human structures" Packet 114
- •What Should Be Allowed in National Parks? "Noise in National Parks" and "Gatekeepers in
Yellowstone wear gas masks" Packet 155
- •Gabriel Escobar, "Rain Forest Gift Raises Suspicions" (from Washington Post 11/29/96: A1) and
"No Secret to Saving the Rain Forests" Packet 116-119
- •Apr 14: William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" Text
371-382
PAPER DUE, Friday, April 15th, 3pm, 14 Glebe Mailbox
Property and Environment
- •Apr 19: Oral Presentations (5) on Owning Nature, Property Rights, and Takings
- •"Who Owns the Moon?" Text 362
- •Gary Spencer, "Public's Right of Way on Rivers Expanded" and "Who Owns the Waterways?"
Packet 120-122
- •"Whales for Sale" Text 135-136
- •"Law is costing landowners," "Woodpecker clouds state forest's future,," and "Biologists to move
endangered birds" Packet 123-125
- • "Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council" Text 363 and "The Lucas Case: Supreme Court
Decisions" (from Congaree Chronicle July/August 1992), Packet 126
- •"'Takings' and Property Rights" Text 136 "Property Rights and 'Takings' Legislation" Packet 127
- •Apr 21: E. Converse, "Who Owns Nature? Property Rights, Biodiversity, and the Land Ethic" Packet
128-39
Radical Environmental Action
- •Apr 26: Oral Presentations (6) on Radical Environmentalism and Anti-Environmentalism
- •Peter Singer "Ends and Means" (from Practical Ethics 2nd ed., Cambridge 1993: 289-292) Packet
140-143
- •South Carolina environmental civil disobedience: "South Carolina Man Joins Trees in Logging
Protest" (Post and Courier 9/2/90) and "Shellfish Inquiry Scheduled" (Post and Courier 6/2/90),
Packet 144-45
- •"Ecosaboteur known as 'The Fox' dies" Packet 198 and "Arson at Vail Ski Resort aimed at
protecting lynx habitat" Packet 146-47
- •Paul Watson, "Raid on Reykjavik" and "Tora, Tora, Tora" (from Peter List, Radical
Environmentalism, Wadsworth 1993, p. 172-77,4) Packet 148-150
- •Ed Marston, "Ecotage isn't a solution, it's part of the problem," High Country News (19 June 1989,
p. 15) Packet 151
- •"Would You Ever Break The Law in Support of an Environmental Goal?" Sierra, Packet 152
Final Exam