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Calendar Post for September 16
- To stimulate the kind of conversation that generates inquiry, post an additional comment of at least 50 words (to one of the forums mentioned above) that responds to a previous comment from another writer. As with your original post, think of this comment in terms of inquiry: you can question, analyze, interpret, respond, compare, contrast, or elaborate, but try not to engage in outright argument.
- In preparation for Wednesday, consult a handout that will guide group work on and a class discussion of Wilson's letter. If you're interested, examples of letters (by Raul Moreno and Student Doe) similar to the text you'll draft for our Open Letter assignment have also been posted to drop.io.
- Plan to attend one of the English Department’s screenings of “The 11th Hour” on Tuesday or Wednesday at 7:00 PM in Clark A101 (look for the north end of building 70 on this map). As mentioned in class, you should focus your notes on two individuals featured in the film that you find compelling. Be prepared to quote and paraphrase their comments on a forum to be posted later this week. If you have unavoidable commitments and can't attend either screening, e-mail Raul via "Contact" on the right side of the page.
I agree with the statement that most of the ideas are too far-fetched. The idea of putting sulfur into the atmosphere, using giant disks or even using a huge fleet of boats with turbines on the back seems crazy. None of these crazy ideas get rid of any CO2 emissions. They all will cool the earth but none will get rid of the green house gases that we all ready have built up over the years. Also we don’t even understand the consequences of something like this. There could be huge side effects that we can’t even contemplate of know because we don’t know enough about geo-engineering to really understand it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the statement that said that relaying completely on Geo-engineering is too radical. That if we do most or any of these suggestions, it would be too radical on our climate. To take the risk would be unwise, because we have not come far enough to understand all of it . However, I also agree with the last part of the statement, in which we should keep investigating and use the Geo-engineering in small doses to help the carbon footprint and start to retract global warming effects.
ReplyDeleteHi Cyndi and Kassi: thanks for posting your additional comments. Could you also post them to the forum on Wood's text? I've updated the instructions above to make that clear.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Raul