Environmental Politics January 2004. Agenda Introductions Preliminary Remarks I Information about the course and your participation in it An opportunity.

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Environmental Politics January 2004

Agenda Introductions Preliminary Remarks I Information about the course and your participation in it An opportunity to discuss yesterday's video An opportunity to discuss today’s reading.

Preliminary Remarks Spaceship Earth Spaceship Earth Progress Progress –Ecosystem People –Biosphere People Renaissance Man Renaissance Man Ecology Ecology This Course This Course Economics & Politics Economics & Politics Why Bother? Why Bother?

The First Principle of Ecology -- John Muir “When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” -- John Muir

Walt Kelly: Earth Day Poster, 1970

"The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are f**ked." -- George Carlin

Climate Change in Florida 20,000 years ago

Climate Change in Florida if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (17 feet)

Climate Change in Florida if the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melted (170 feet)

Gary Larson on Climate Change "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."