General Preparation

Please watch this TED video by Johan Rockstrom, called Let the Environment Guide Our Development.

Select ONE of these two publications. Do not read for detail. Your objective is to understand the organization's general approach for addressing some of the challenges to sustainability having to do with energy use, climate change and resource depletion. You can read appropriate sections in more detail after you start your class preparation.

The publication " Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change" (David G. Victor, Yale University, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2020) offers a strategy for climate change mitigation that is specific to the policy and eocnomic systems of the U.S. If you are intersted in ideas about how to mitigate climate change in post-industrial societies, this is a good document for you to review.

The publication " Confronting Climate Change: Africa's Leadership on an Increasingly Urgent Issue by Brookings Institute focuses on the likely impacts of climate change on African peoples, and provides ideas about how to include steps to reduce the impact of climate change into policy, planning and development for developing nations with a focus on the vulnerabilities of the poor to the impacts of climate change. If you are interested in this focus on developing nations or on the poor, please review the material in this pubication.

Also select ONE of these two publications. Do not read for detail. Your objective is to understand the organization's general approach for addressing some of the challenges to sustainability having to do with energy use, climate change and resource depletion. You can read appropriate sections in more detail after you start your class preparation.

Look at the report Equity and Smart Mobility produced in 2019 by the Institute for Sustainable Communities. This document has a domestic U.S. focus that focuses on the relationships between energy use, transportation systems, urban development and the economic and social impacts of these processes. You do not have to read this report for detail. You do not have to read all of this. Pick sections of most interest to you.

Read This is how Africa can lead the global energy revolution," (Tilleard, Matt; Slaugher Sam; and Cusack, Jake. 2016) published by the World Economic Forum."

Class Preparation for Feb. 08 - Select TWO articles from the Additional Resources -- see class preparation before you make your choices.The materials listed above are from "think tanks," government agencies, non-profits and other public and private institutions and organizations that focus for the most part on how to address the challenges of energy use, resource depletion and climate change to global sustainability. The articles in the list of additional resources are scholarly publications focusing on the causes, nature, effects, or extent of climate change, energy use, and resource depletion. Your task is to identify a PIN (problem, issue or need) related to climate change, resource depletion / degradation, or energy use. The articles in the additional resources will help you understand the challenges while the "think tank" pieces will help you think about how the general challenge expresses itself at local or regional levels.

Step 1. Identify and state in your own words the key ideas, concepts or theses that are discussed in each article you select from the additional resources. Focus on what you learned about the challenge(s) to sustainability discussed in the articles.

Step 2. Identify two problems, issues or needs (I call these PINs) about climate change, energy, or resource depletion/degradation of interest to you. Think of PINs as location or context specific expressions of the general challenge. For example, energy resource depletion in much of rural Africa is related to deforestation and decreased availability while energy resource depletion in developed nations refers almost exclusively to petroleum. Energy is used primarily to cook in Africa. Energy is used in many ways in developed nations.

Step 3. Consider the ideas that we have discussed about the Anthropocene and the intermeshed processes of population growth, urbanization, technological development and globalization and how they would enhance (or not) the probability that the kinds of solutions proposed can effectively address the challenges identified in the two readings from the additional resources list. Write down two or three of your own ideas about how the processes (drivers of change) affect the specific PINs you are considering.

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