Practical Lessons

This week we finished Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE.

This section is open for your template posts and responses.

Respond to one of the following or with your own topic:

Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?

What were your thoughts after reading chapter 15,
"Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes"?

Or what are you thoughts on the final chapter:
"The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today?"

Mid-Term Review

Midterm Study Guide

14 true/false questions on lecture material
2 short answer question on lecture material
2 short answer question on discussion material
1 essay question based on lecture material


Be able to discuss:
Environmental issues in Montana.
Main industries in Montana and how they have changed.
The relationship between logging, forest fires and environmentalism in Montana.

Aldo Leopold as father of wildlife management and the United States’ wilderness system.

What organic means.

Monsanto and how does it affects farmers in Mexico and India.

Collapse: Chapters 10-13

A few topics/terms you might want to review:
CAFO
Nitrogen
Cuba
The Lorax
Walmart
McDonalds
IWAC
IPAT
Haber-Bosch process

COLLAPSE...

How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond (Penguin Books, 2005)

This week we began to dig deep within this book. What are your thoughts about what you read and what we discussed in class about the Rwanda Genocide of 1994 and the links to the agricultural and land crisis the country was experiencing?

The Dominican Republic and Haiti?

China the "lurching giant"? and

The literal and non-literal mining of Australia?

These are very emotionally charged, real and difficult topics to discuss. You continue to inspire me with your dedication to the material and your individual abilities to share your ideas about these topics. Keep up the great work and have a wonderful Fall break.

Week Six: Group Projects

Please use this space to converse about your group projects.

1. Share your idea.

2. Discuss.

3. Search out team members if you do not have one(s).


My Best,
Ashley