2.Do you agree with Hardin that the developing world’s population is the soruce of our environmental problems and that helping them would only make the problem worse? 3.Boomsters like Jacqueline Kasun and Julian SImon say that resources aren’t things they are services. In other words you don’t care whether fossil fuels are used to get your groceries from the market you just want your groceries. For this topic I want you to put on your creative caps and imagine ways in which you might receive your food without fossil fuels (at some point in the future). Feel free to be wild and imaginative. For example how about a solar powered 3d printer that prints your steak on demand? 4. A new cell phone battery increases time before charging by 10x over the current generation, however its manufacture is highly toxic and will seriously harm about 1% of the workers who are involved in its production. Should it be allowed to be sold in the U.S.? Would you buy it if it were? 5. Use the natural capitalism part of the schweikart reading to think of some way in which one can do well by doing good. Think of a possible invention, product or service that would be good for the environment and profitable. 6. Shue thinks that common sense principles of justice make it reasonable for rich countries to pay for dealing with environmental problems like climate change. Do you agree? Why or why not? Try to reference one of Shue’s notions of justice in your answer. 7. Consider for a moment (for the sake of argument) that the unequal distribution of environmental harms is just the effect of market forces (e.g. not purposeful discrimination). Does that make it just? Why or why not? 8. In a democrtatic country (one where people have some say in the laws and the people who make the laws) is it ever morally permissible to commit ecosabotage? 9. Given the moral and ecological arguments against meat, do you think that 20 years from now factory farmed meat will be replaced by lab grown (or 3d printed meat)? It now costs only $11 for a lab grown burger… http://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-burger-patty-cost-drops-from-325-000-to-12 (Links to an external site.) 10. Imagine a situation where feral (but common) goats are eating a rare (but not instrumentally valuable) plant. You’ve tried trapping the goats but they are elusive. Should you shoot the goats to save the plants? If so why? If not, what would you do? (Note: this is one of those rare thought experiments that was a real case) 11. Do you think there is intrinsic value in nature? 12. We talk about wilderness like it is a univeral value, but who can afford to live near or travel to and play in a “free” national forest? If you are working two jobs, if you live in the city, if you can’t afford the gear, is wilderness something in which you will find that transcendent sense of value?
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