Professor Comments

• Feel Good Environmentalism

Fear & Fact

Many of you have pointed out the 'emotive' portion of environmentalism. This 'feel good' environmentalism is key too many an activist and lobbyist. Imagine your fear to find your little Jenny has been ingesting Arsenic in her drinking water at school.

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The purpose of THIS course is to allow you to see what is fact, what is an emotional play, and how to decipher between the two using a scientifically sound and ethical approach.

Becoming AWARE of your surroundings and the ecological interconnectivity of our world is a major impetus to social and behavioral change. Will you remember to recycle because of the course? Or, will you bend over and pick up that 6-pack plastic wrapper blowing down the park lawn? Point is, when you see it, I bet you think of it as more than a mere piece of plastic. You see it as pollution, consider that it will wash into the stream, that a fish or bird might eat it or get entangled in it, that the dead carcas will float and rot and suck up the oxygen in the water, killing off more fish and fowl, and ultimately creating an eyesore for some local fisherman. You just took a big journey in an instant of looking down at some trash that before - was someone ELSE's problem.