GNM 1056ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP

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This is a freshman seminar. This course will be taught in five parallel sessions, with occasional meetings (lectures, presentations, panels) that include all five sections. We plan to combine our knowledge of different aspects of environmental problems, and attempt to craft a comprehensive, interdisciplinary curriculum. This course will explore many dangers and environmental crises we face today. Scientific research increasingly tells us that we are destroying the natural systems on which our lives depend. Global climate change, the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, the acidification of our rain, the poisoning of our rivers, lakes and oceans, the depletion of our soil, the devastation of our forests, globalization, environmental economics and conservation crises are some of the topics we will focus on.