ENVI 382FEnvironmental Activism

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Beginning with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, this course will examine the history of environmental activism. It will explore the role that various stakeholders, including scientists, lawyers, medical professionals, youth, and ordinary citizens, have played in making change. It will also examine the present state of environmental activism, particularly around climate change, and discuss effective ways of making change from the local through the global levels.