An important part of how I will apply my ENVS knowledge in the future will lie in my increased ability to understand the differing points of view, of which there are many, to the global environmental issue. From this ability, I am able to inspect more critically political events relating to Climate Change, and the opinions […]
The Method Behind The Madness
In Who Rules the Earth by Paul Steinberg, the question of governments, their effects, how best to act on them, with them, and around them comes (predictably) to the center stage. One of the important messages I understood from the text specifically is the role of governments in global life and for the average citizen. On a global […]
Reading Between the Lines to Draw Lines
One of the powerful things about ENVS 160 this semester was the intricate way the readings tied together that both overlapped, but also introduced new ideas, such that I never felt redundancies between texts. Below I describe my three key connections between the big ideas of each text. Images for the Future: Why We Disagree […]
One Class. Three Lessons Learned: A Synthesis of Environmental Understanding.
In this semester of Environmental Studies 160, I’ve realized that the problem of climate change in its entire concept is a much more convoluted problem than I ever imagined. The word Climate Change is so broad, it’s hard to understand what it even means, and I feel like that is a point of our first […]
Biologism: Exclusively Using Genetics to Analyze Human Behavior
Context Biologism is “the belief that genetic contributions to phenotypes are exclusively or at least much more important than the contributions of other factors such as epigenetic and environmental ones, even in the case of complex traits such as behavior and personality” (Carver et al, 2017). To simplify, an individual’s characteristics are solely attributed to […]
Is Climate Change a Concern in the Portland Metropolitan Area?
Procedure: Our team of three students, Kurt Barbara, Jordan McLuckie and Isabelle Russenberger, surveyed various areas of the Portland Downtown Metro Area. We approached city-goers on the street to ask them to take a short survey on their thoughts on Climate change, and how they would rate it in terms of level of importance on […]