BILL MCKIBBEN

Bio:  http://www.billmckibben.com/bio.html

McKibben on NPR, 9/17/10:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129934816

McKibben’s newest book, Eaarth:

 Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend—think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer.

Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change—fundamental change—is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.

The website for 350.org 10.10.10.

GARRETT HARDIN (1915-2003):

The Garett Hardin Society:  http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/index.html

Garrett Hardin on video:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Garrett+Hardin&aq=f&safe=safety_mode=true

JACQUELINE KASUN  (1924-2009)

First and foremost she was a devoted wife to Joseph Kasun; mother of two daughters, Christine and Audrey, and a son, Walter; and grandmother. She held a doctoral degree in economics. Her Curriculum Vitae lists 64 publications, 6 major speeches, and the publication of her book, The War Against Population. In 1972 she co-founded Humboldt Pro-Life, and was a world-wide champion for the cause of the unborn. She testified before Senate committees, was a guest with Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes,” and with Ted Koppel on the “Nightly News” program. She represented non-governmental agencies, supporting the right-to-life cause, at conferences across the globe. But she sincerely felt that the raising of her family, which extended to her love for her grandchildren, was more important to the world than all of her writings, conferences, and public appearances.

Dr. Kasun lived with her husband in Bayside, Humboldt County, CA until her death on January 1, 2009, at the age of 84.  

Information about the eugenics movement, in powerpoint form is here:

http://www.cedarville.edu/personal/sullivan/bio4710/notes/24.pdf

MURDOCH AND OATEN:  The  Critique of Lifeboat Ethics

Here’s a very short quiz:  http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195342604/student/chapt7/quiz/murdoch_oaten/.

A short bio of Murdoch in a press release at UCSB:  http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1113

A very short bio of Oaten at the website of the Motion Theatre Dance Company:

http://www.motiontheatre.com/bio.htm

...and his faculty profile:  http://industry.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/334