Lynn Margulis

This is the scientist I was talking about on Wednesday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis

More bad news

This article overstates the case slightly (this past February can hardly have been the warmest month on record; more likely it was the warmest February on record), but is legitimately alarming.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35413-climate-disruption-brings-record-wildfire-to-kansas-and-it-s-only-spring

Bad News from Bill McKibben

http://www.thenation.com/article/global-warming-terrifying-new-chemistry/

Wolves change rivers

Here's a video about the wolves in Yellowstone National Park. Maybe we can watch it in class.
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=C111US739D20150602&p=when+wolves+change+rivers

Franzen

Here's the Jonathan Franzen piece I mentioned. Like much of his work it's a little overwrought, but consider whether he might have a point about global versus local or individual concern (not unlike Regan's concern for individual animals). http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/carbon-capture

Hunting and Conservation

One further thought about the Sierra Club and other organizations that Singer takes to task for not opposing hunting: they were able to build large popular constituencies precisely by crafting a big tent for various supporters of the natural world. Prominent among those supporters were some of the people who spend the most time appreciating it -- hunters and fishers. Thus their appeal was to nature at large, not individual animals in particular. Depending on what their actual beliefs were, this might have been a principled decision, or it might have been a compromise of their principles in search of support. Singer's critique might be more nuanced if he teased out which it was.

The Latest on Exxon from Bill McKibben

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34884-exxon-s-never-ending-big-dig-flooding-the-earth-with-fossil-fuels