Wasting the World

5 credits · Undergraduate

Humans are wasting the world faster than they're building it. With each passing year, industrial wastes from extraction and other activities accumulate ever more rapidly. At this rate, the planet will be engulfed in waste before your generation gets old. This course helps you understand how the history of how waste, pollution, emissions, and discards have come to define our existence while remaining stubbornly invisible to inhabitants of the wealthy world.