FYS: Classics of Environmental Justice

3 Credits.

The rapidly evolving emerging field of environmental justice has transformed the academic landscape of energy and of climate change, with attention to gender issues, the impacts and opportunities for indigenous peoples, and of marginalized communities. At the same time, the politics of 'EJ and DEI' has become a political battleground in the US. In this seminar we will read a series of 'environmental and justice classic' books, and also read the and critique the literature that evolved around them at the time of their publication, and decades later. Readings to include Silent Spring, Dumping in Dixie, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the possibility of life in the Capitalist Ruins, and The Lorax.