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ENGLISH 23<\/span><\/p>\n

(A.K.A. CLIMATE CRISIS 101)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Week #6<\/p>\n

Drawing down the climate crisis<\/p>\n

Weekly Assignments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>This week\u2019s readings are the first 25 approaches from the \u201cSummary of Solutions<\/a>\u201d from Project Drawdown. After opening this page, click \u201cScenario #1\u201d until \u201cReduced Food Waste\u201d is at the top. \u201cAbandoned Farmland Restoration<\/span>\u201d will be #25, with \u201cConservation Agriculture\u201d right above it at #24. <\/span>Please go to each of the 25 pages and read the summaries (which are just two or three paragraphs each), as well as the \u201cImpact\u201d statements on the sidebar.\u00a0Note that if you find this material of particular interest, you might enjoy the book that came out of this project:\u00a0Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After reading it, please comment on it in the weekly Canvas reading discussion.<\/p>\n

Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please watch\u00a0either<\/em>\u00a0the documentary\u00a0Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Wasted! The Story of Food Waste!<\/em>\u00a0according to these guidelines:<\/p>\n

1) If you if you have NOT taken Eng 22 (Intro to L & E) in 2019 or 2020, please watch\u00a0Cowspiracy<\/em>. It is available for viewing on GauchoSpace (GauchoCast). If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently streams from\u00a0Netflix<\/em>. A DVD can also be purchased from\u00a0cowspiracy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trigger warning<\/em>:\u00a0Cowspiracy<\/em>\u00a0is not, generally speaking, a very graphic film, even though it takes up beef and other meat industries. In fact, other documentaries that deal with the subject (such as the 2011 film\u00a0Vegucated<\/em>) actually take viewers inside of slaughterhouses. In this sense,\u00a0Cowspiracy\u00a0<\/em>seems to be attempting something of a genre shift. That said, there is one particularly disturbing scene in the film where a duck is slaughtered by a backyard farmer. It occurs from 1:10:16 \u2013 1:12:23. If you think that you might find this scene unsettling, please scrub past it.<\/p>\n

2) If you have taken taken Eng 22 in 2019 or 2020, please instead watch\u00a0Wasted!<\/em>. It is up on GauchoCast. If you are not enrolled in the class, it currently can be rented for a relatively modest fee from YouTube, Amazon, Google, etc.<\/p>\n

3) Since we will be considering each in class, feel free to watch both videos. They are each interesting, though in different ways.<\/p>\n

After watching one of the above films, please go to Canvas to make a comment on it.<\/p>\n

Lecture videos<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following two lectures will be delivered live in Campbell Hall during the Tuesday and Thursday class periods. If you miss class or would like to review them (for exam prep, for example), here they are. For your convenience, they can be accessed below as either PDFs, audio podcasts, or YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

Reading 6, Project Drawdown (2024)<\/p>\n

download as a PDF<\/a> \/ watch as a video<\/a> \/ listen to as a podcast<\/u>\" >listen to as a podcast<\/u><\/span>