Week English 105 NREM Readings 1 – Evolving Ethics As the course evolves, we will focus some of our attention on ethics and ethical issues. You will have a chance to do some work in your major about ethical issues related to that major. This material supplements the syllabus and allows you non-NREM students an opportunity to write about topics of interest to you. The readings listed below are intended as a view into the evolving ethics of nature, the environment, and our place in it. Many questions surround what we should do with nature, how we should treat it, what purpose it serves humans (if you take that view), how we should interact with it, and many more. What is the right choice to make or the right course of action to take regarding our land and our relationship to it? I will provide questions over these readings for class discussion and homework. Please be sure to read them and be prepared to lead a discussion over them (to what do the words “them” refer – the readings or the questions?). I am looking for how you respond to the readings, what insight and connections you can make regarding the readings and how the issues raised in them affect/effect (which is correct?) us. I’m also interested in how you move knowledge forward. During our discussions, what new ideas or new ways of thinking can you present to help the class understand the material? The Land Ethic Aldo Leopold http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/landethic.html Women and the Challenge of the Ecological Era Dana Lee Jackson (from the Land Institute – see reading below) http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/jackson_90.html The Land Institute http://www.landinstitute.org/ for study on Thursday during lab Wilderness Letter Wallace Stegner http://www.wilderness.org/OurIssues/Wilderness/wildernessletter.cfm