Michael Pollan begins his article, “An Animal’s Place”, with an analysis of the meat eating tendencies of America and its meat processing industries through the lens of species equality. The author goes on to argue the relevance of not placing nonhuman animals on the same moral plane as humans but to regard animals and animal […]
William E. Odum and Eric T. Freyfogle are both exploring a similar idea in their respective articles within the Session 3 reading. Odum is talking about a push for holistic understandings of our relationship to the earth and how an ignorance of the interconnectivity of every individual’s choices can lead to widespread negative change. The […]
In the reading, “Science and Morals,” in which it is understood that the value of a decision to effect change can only be effectively assigned via a moral understanding brought on by collective reasoning and social discussion, the question arises, how does society merge together these two seemingly apposing realms of science and morality in […]
Question: From the reading entitled: “Conservation is Good Work”, what are the most appropriate and effective ways in which consumers can prevent the ongoing degradation of natural resources by the human economic system? While reading this segment, I was struck by the clarity employed in the presentation of the many negative effects of human intervention […]