Climate change honors lecture

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Spring 2020 Honors
Lecture Series on
Climate Change -
"There is a tomorrow":
Philosophical Reflections
on the Climate Cris...

I’m delighted to be back
for my 3d Honors
Lecture, I seem to return
about every five years...

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Feb 3, 2014: Spg 2014 Honors Lecture Series: Health & Happiness

Don’t forget to register and vote!

Hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl and
your team won (mine did)... or at least
enjoyed the commercials (Bill Murray
and the G...

My biology-major daughter (who may or may not be in this room)
tells me my slides are too wordy, but that’s due to an old ...

The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss
(1971)
"I am the
Lorax. I speak
for the trees.
I speak for the
trees, for the
trees have no
tongues...

“But now,” says
the Once-ler,
“Now that you’re
here, the word of
the Lorax seems
perfectly clear.
UNLESS
someone like
you ...

A 130-foot-tall white oak tree on the
Oaklands property near the MTSU
campus is listed on the Tennessee
Landmark and Histo...

“People aren’t the apex species they think
they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller,
slower, faster, older, younger, more...

Overstory is the larger, taller trees of growth occupying a
forest area and shading young trees, hardwoods, brush, and
oth...

"I wish that I could give you
something... but I have nothing
left. I am an old stump. I am
sorry..."
"I don't need very m...

"What's a purpose?" Freddie had
asked.
"A reason for being," Daniel had
answered. "To make things more
pleasant for others...

NYT Climate & Environment… FAQs...2019 The Year in Climate Change…
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC
We’re i...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a shocking report
“Global Warming of 1.5°C.” An equally accu...

It is shocking, not because those working on the science are
surprised by the messages (indeed they are all based on
exist...

“We can’t just continue living
as if there was no tomorrow,
because there is a tomorrow.
That is all we are saying.”
Greta...

‘Our house is still on fire’
DAVOS, Switzerland — Greta Thunberg on
Tuesday punched a hole in the promises
emerging from a...

Greta Thunberg said on Friday
that U.S. Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin's comments had
"no effect" on her during a news
...

“One can only surmise that Mnuchin slept through his
undergraduate economics classes. Otherwise he would know
that every, ...

Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg)
1/29/20, 6:53 AM
“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and
gas companie...

There is a tomorrow, but what’s the forecast? Cloudy, gray, much
warmer. Foreboding, unless a new “front” moves in very qu...

“We as a species must make a
decision. How absurd that sounds.
It sounds absurd because we’ve
never made a decision as a s...

The good news. A new front is
beginning to appear on our radar. The
rise of a new generation of engaged
activists, led now...

9.16.19, Tucker
Auditorium. Al Gore
spoke with deep gratitide
for his parents' influence,
& with impassioned
urgency when ...

Al Gore: The Climate Crisis Is the Battle of Our Time, and We Can Win
We have the tools. Now we are building the political...

Tropical diseases are spreading to higher latitudes. Cities face drinking water shortages. The ocean is
becoming warmer an...

https://www.sunrisemovement.org

2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing
Out the Warmest Decade
Analyses by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin...

On January 18, 1970, The
New York Times ran a
full-page ad announcing a
day of environmental
action. This day, which
was f...

...on Christmas Day it was 70 degrees in Nashville, and two weeks
later, the daffodils were blooming. It’s always a mistak...

Effortless Environmentalism
If 2019 is truly “the year we woke up to climate change,” then
2020 should be the year we star...

Happy New Year! It’s 2020, and the forecast for this next decade is cloudy with
an apprehension of doom. According to the ...

Attempting to convert deniers is not the most productive way to fight climate
change, argue Marcus Hedahl and Travis N. Ri...

“To live an ethical life, is it essential
that we minimize our carbon
footprint by, for example, installing
solar panels… ...

The proposal that the impact of humanity on
the planet has left a distinct footprint, even
on the scale of geological time...

“Our planet has entered the
Anthropocene – a new geological
epoch when humanity’s influence
is causing global climate chan...

“But the Anthropocene isn’t a novel
phenomenon of the last few centuries.
Already tens of thousands of years ago,
when our...

"The real fault line in American
politics is not between liberals and
conservatives.... It is, rather, in how
we orient ou...

“So we are left with a stark
choice: allow climate
disruption to change
everything about our world,
or change pretty much
...

“This may explain the odd
space that the climate crisis
occupies in the public
imagination, even among
those of us who are...

...we’re online shopping and willfully turning our minds
into Swiss cheese by scrolling through Twitter or
Instagram. Or e...

Some see a “fault line” on climate between
religion and secular humanism: "climate change
and the possible destruction of ...

We have not met, yet I feel I know you well
enough to call you friend. First of all, we grew
up in the same faith. Althoug...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's
home. That's us. On it everyone you love,
everyone you know, everyone you ever...

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by
all those generals and emp...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is
perhaps no better demonstration ...

Unless emissions are reduced, and radically, a rise of two degrees Celsius (3.6
degrees Fahrenheit) will be pretty much un...

Really waking up, and not just
dreaming to ourselves that
things will be O.K., has become
urgent—beyond urgent, in fact. T...

“Obviously, the fate of
our own species
concerns us
disproportionately.
But at the risk of
sounding anti-
human—some of my...

“If warming were held to a minimum, the team
estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the
species would be “committed t...

Over 1 billion animals feared dead in
Australian wildfires
The death toll for animals in Australia continues to go up.
The...

A wake-up call on saving endangered species
So, why should you care that so many of Earth's species are going to run out o...

“...we must think rationally, globally,
collectively, and optimistically about
the long term. Advances in
biotechnology, c...

“The dearth of optimistic
visions of the future, at least
in the United States, is
central to the psychic
atmosphere of th...

"Another method of planetary annihilation that has worked for us in the past is accelerating a
planet’s climate crisis. We...

“There is a tomorrow” is an aspirational statement. How can we make it so?
Perhaps with an eye on the clock…
"When I was a...

The Omega Glory I was reading, in a recent issue of
Discover, about the Clock of the Long Now. Have you heard
of this thin...

“I don’t know if that’s true, any more than do Danny Hillis and his colleagues, with
the beating clocks of their hopefulne...

"Betting on the future" for our kids
and theirs (et al) has a particular
environmental resonance in these
Greta/Green New ...

PARTING WORDS to the Environmental Ethics class last year...
LISTEN. My parting words in the CoPhilosophy course (which is...

To love life is to love its enabling conditions,
and to revile whatever would disable them.
Thus, we've been reading and d...

Discussion Questions:
● Is there a tomorrow, for your generation and for the other species we share this
planet with?
● Ar...

http://envirojpo.blogspot.com/

http://envirojpo.blogspot.com/

Gregg Caruso
@GreggDCaruso
·9h
I’m teaching Environmental Ethics this
semester (among other things). I cannot
imagine a mo...

“Day to day, we forget that if the
billions of years of life on Earth were
scaled to a twenty-four-hour day, our
settled c...

“To see how much our thinking about
ethics needs to change, consider the
work that, better than any other,
represents late...

If we were to apply this method globally rather than for a given society it would
immediately be obvious that one fact abo...

“How could I pray and ask God to help
me, or my family, or my country, or any
other cherished thing I cared about,
when Go...

Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917) In
2007, on his 90th birthday, Clarke
recorded a video in which he says
goodbye to his frie...

Science
Under
Attack: How
Drumpf Is
Sidelining
Researchers
Science
Under
Attack: How
Drumpf Is
Sidelining
Researchers
and ...

What Will the World Look Like in 2030?
Mark Blyth
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Only one ...

With that kind of split among the Democrats, it’s easy to imagine
the plausible: Drumpf wins re-election, leaving the Deni...

Stacey Abrams
DEMOCRAT FROM GEORGIA
...By 2030, we’ll see whether our nation has stood true to
its pluralistic roots and u...

Garry Kasparov
CHAIRMAN OF THE RENEW DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE AND FORMER WORLD CHESS CHAMPION
...The free world is lurching to...

“Thirty years ago,in 1989, I
wrote the first book for a wide
audience on climate change…
My basic point was that humans
ha...

Bill McKibben (@billmckibben)
1/14/20, 7:05 AM
Biggest news in a long time. After a ton of pressure, Blackrock--which owns...

Follow the money
WASHINGTON — If you asked us
why a dozen people sat on the
floor next to the A.T.M. in a Chase
Bank branc...

JPMorgan Chase isn’t the only offender, but it is among the worst. In the last
three years, according to data compiled in ...

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth a...

...We are on a path to self-destruction, and yet there is
nothing inevitable about our fate. Solar panels and wind
turbine...

Trump moves to exempt big projects from environmental review
WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday introduced major cha...

“Cli-fi”
Over the last two decades, the
global landscape of cultural
production has been teeming with
a cornucopia of fict...

It’s okay to be smart-climate science
“...Since 1870, with
fossil fuels, cement
production, and land
use combined, humans
...

Fifty years later, almost to the date, Earth Day Network is running another full-
page ad inThe New York Times, this one a...

Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts
as the present, we are deciding, without quite
meaning to, which evolut...

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