Environmental Ethics-Living Well with Nature

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course explores what we do and why we do what we do to the world around us. Without ignoring the theoretical, this course will focus on ethics as it bears on practical, everyday things: using energy, eating food, building houses, flying to far-away destinations, hiking in wild places, watching birds.... Our effects are far reaching: climate change, industrial agriculture and CAFOs, pollution and ecological restoration, biodiversity and species extinctions, wilderness, genetic engineering of plants and animals. We will ask "what is a good way to live in nature?"