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Paul Dayton - 2 April 2010

California has lost 90% of wetlands
restoration problematic
Chesapeake Bay was covered in clams
restoration ecology is a feel good subject
Scorpion fish
sequential overfishing
baby abalone eaten by octopus
Morays are eaten in Kearny Mesa
recreational fishing is in denial
Ecologists are elitists taking our resources
without ice, krill are in trouble
nothing as frightening as a horny male elephant seal
politicians preach dogma, intolerance, hate
Part of our challenge is to recover a culture that cares
If you can get people to care about nature, they will care about each other
we have to do this well and often

Wilderness and Human Values - 1 April 2010

William Cronan
Ken Burns
Silent Spring
volunteerism
rethink wilderness - think wilderness
the zest for wilderness did not start until 150 years ago
before that, people thought of wilderness as wasteland, bewilderment, and terror
transform our asthetics of nature
Romantic Movement - 1770's
Afghanistan
Hetch Hetchy
Wilderness - sublime, frontier
sublime - confrontation with god
frontier - rugged male individual
wilderness - nature
artificial - blue fence, talking tree
1600
Scientific worldview - mechanicalism, reductionism, materialism
Modernism - faith in progress
Antimodernism - skepticism

Wilderness and Human Values - 30 March 2010

Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev
take the wolf to the zoo
dogs are bred from wolves
russian wolves are maneaters
wilderness is a slow place
slow as hell
blue eyes
E.T. - a postmodern myth about wilderness
Wizard of Oz
Beevis and Butthead, face of Chuckie
horrified when duck gets eaten, but not when we see a butcher shop
terra firma

Naomi Oreskes - 8 March 2010

Revelle - Moyers - Johnson
Consensus about a prediction
Discernable
Aviation induced contrails
Isotopes
Strategic defense initiative - Reagan
Doubt-mongering
Environmental "extremism"
Environmentalism - socialism
Fundamentalist - demonizing of opponents
Watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside - a green tree with red roots
The proverbial rocket scientists
Money laundering - tobacco companies give money to think tanks
Nobody will adapt to a mean temperature increase across the globe, the adaptation will take place in specific areas like Paris and Los Angeles
Marshall Institute
Most of the feedback loops that are possible are positive; they would make climate change worse
Ice crystals in the stratosphere, physically plausible
Doubling of ppm is merely for convenience
No one person understands the entire model
It all boils down to the basic physics
JASON
Although geology has taught us that humans are insignificant on a global time scale, this is no longer the case
Godless communism
Two books of Moses, the bible and nature

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