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ThemeQuestionsMain readingFurther reading/resources for essaysWork dueFeedback due (from instructors!) Key datesWork due
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7 Sep2IntroWho are we? How does the course work? What is philosophy?Syllabus!
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14 Sep3ClimateWhat does each country's "fair share" of the climate burden mean? Can it be discussed in the abstract?
1. David Morrow (2019): “Cross-cutting Issues in Climate Policy”[Chapter 5 from “Values in Climate Policy”] pp 1-11.

2. Olufemi Taiwo (2019): The Green New Deal and the Dangers of Climate Colonialism: Slate link


Gardiner vs Weisbach (video) link (1st hour is Gardiner and Weisbach)

Weisbach: “The Role of Claims of Justice in Climate Policy” from “Debating Climate Ethics”

Neocolonialism Encyclopedia definition https://iep.utm.edu/neocolon/
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21 Sep4ClimateHow could we quantify "fair shares"? Watch the three mini-lectures
Mini Lecture 1 - Short History of NDCs (~11 min)
Mini Lecture 2 - NDC Assessments (~7 min)
Mini Lecture 3 - Looking under the Hood (~22 min)
[All linked on Blackboard]

Explore the three assessments
http://paris-equity-check.org/
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/
Civil Society Review - Fair Shares on blackboard - (skim) 		Equitable Access to Sustainable Development - BASIC Experts (extract). [This is a somewhat technical attempt at laying out burden-sharing principles, but illustrates the view from emerging economies well.

2. Pledge comparisons self-described methodology:
a. Climate Equity Reference Project "about the climate equity reference project"
b..Paris Equity Check Website "The Science".
Scroll down and read first the section "Equity Allocations" near bottom, and then "Methodology of the Pledged Warming Map"
c. Climate Action Tracker Website "Comparability of Effort"

3. Kartha et al. (2018) Cascading Biases Against Poorer Countries. Nature Climate Change 8.5: 348-349 [This is a criticism of the peer-reviewed paper behind the Paris Equity Check website] [1pg]		21/9 Report
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28 Sep5BiodiversityHow bad would it be if humans went extinct? Why? 1. Beckstead, Singer, Wage, 2013 “Preventing Human Extinction,” Effective Altruism Forum. link

2. James Lenman, 2002. On becoming extinct. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 83(3), pp. 253–269

3. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: http://www.vhemt.org/		Kavka, Gregory (1978). “The Futurity Problem,” in Sikora and Barry "Obligations to Future Generations pp. 187–203.Report of first cross-stream conversation28/9
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5 Oct6Biodiversity/ AnimalsAre sentientism and eco-centrism compatible?1. Dale Jamieson (1998) “Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic,” Environmental Values 7

2 Holmes Rolston (1991) "Values in and duties to the natural world" in Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle.
Ian Campbell (2018): "Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics: It's Complicated" Ethics and the Environment 23 (1): 49-69. 2018.
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12 Oct7Water/InstitutionsHow should water scarcity be managed?1. Anderson et al: “Tapping Water Markets” from "Free Market Environmentalism for the next generation"

2. Pradhan and Meinzen-Dick: "Which rights are right? Water Rights, Culture, and Underlying Values" From Water Ethics
Feedback on particpation: October 16
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19 Oct8Climate/InstitutionsHow should climate solutions be governed?Horton and Keith 2016: Solar Geoengineering and obligations to the global poor.

Hourdequin 2018: Climate Change, Climate Engineering, and the ‘Global Poor’: What Does Justice Require? link		Doke et al 2016: Solar Geoengineering: Technology-Based Climate Intervention or Compromising Social Justice in Africa? Report
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26 Oct9Nexus institutions.Are NIMBY claims ever justified? 1. Feldman and Turner. 2010 Why not NIMBY?
2. Whyte 2010 Why not Environmental Injustice?
3. Feldman and Turner 2014 Reply to Whyte		Micro-essay due Sat October 31 5pm
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2 Nov10Nexus - theoryHow does broader social/global justice connect to environmental justice?

Kyle Whyte (2020) "Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points".

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (2020) " I’m a black climate expert. Racism derails our efforts to save the planet." - [WaPo Column].

Robert Bullard (2016) [Interview]


Wretched of the Earth "An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion": https://www.redpepper.org.uk/an-open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/

Grades for micro-essay, Tues Nov 3, 5pmPDF Deadline, Nov 4 11:59
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9 Nov11Nexus - TheoryWhat is nature?Steve Vogel “Thinking Like a Mall” Ch. 1

Plumwood - Being Prey 		Nov 9
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16 Nov12Nexus - theoryWhat is my individual obligation regarding the nexus? Broome - Climate Matters (extract)

Lawford-Smith Climate matters pro tanto		Cross-stream convo report due Mon 16. Essay plan due, Nov 19 11:59pm1
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