As you will soon learn by studying a variety environmental theories, ENVS 160 is highly interdisciplinary. But, I’ve come to find that its breadth has a point. Throughout the course, you will establish a solid foundation in environmental theory and cultivate writing and digital skills through individual and team assigned online posts. From climate change […]
Important ENVS 160 Lessons: A Reflection
As the poster children of Patagucci, many of us came into the ENVS 160 class with the pretension of Bill Mahr and the assumed intellectual credibility of Neil deGrasse Tyson. But without having earned the authority through experience and accreditation, we were only flouting our naiveté and cockiness. Part of me bought into this sentiment; […]
Rules Rule the Earth
Rules are everywhere. And, as Paul Steinberg hints in his book’s title, Who Rules the Earth? it matters where those rules come from and how they are formed. For most, we forget that our right to own private property and ability to vote are actually rules drafted in our […]
Building on a Classic: How Contemporary Thought Has Grown
Mike Hulme’s sympathetic tone in Why We Disagree About Climate Change is fitting; with so many ideas built upon each other in environmental scholarship, being open-minded is important. Just as Hulme shows how personal climate ideologies warp our perceptions of climate change, environmentalism as a study and practice is equally contentious and variable among scholars. By […]
A Climate Ideology Reconfiguration
ENVS 160 has a strong point: its required readings are well chosen. Moreover, they are insightful and properly challenge the conventional frameworks and assumptions popularized by trendy, crunchy liberalism that manifest themselves from the merits of organic acai bowls to the virtuosity of buying local. Going deeper, they raise important questions about the methods of […]