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For questions regarding each of the readings from Unearthed, see Discussion Questions.

Lesson	Topic	Readings
1	Introduction
2	The crisis anticipated	Boulding (1966); Ponting (1993); & Sayre, ch.1
3	Lecture #1 - Easter Island and entropy	Sayre, Preface
4	Basics from thermodynamics	Sayre, ch.1 & ch.2
5	Basics from ecology	Sayre, ch.3
6	Humankind and the biosphere	Sayre, ch.4
7	Lecture #2 - Ecology and structure	Ponting, (1993) ch. 13.
8	The Crisis	Sayre, ch.5
9	History of energy use leading to crisis	Sayre, ch.6
10	Lecture #3 - The crisis: Excess entropy in the biosphere	Meadows (1988)
11	Increasing energy use tied to economic growth	Sayre, ch.7
12	Lecture #4 - Source of crisis: Economic growth	Sayre, ch. 10
13	Purported solutions preserving growth	Sayre, ch. 8 & ch. 9
14	Midterm
15	Lecture #5 - Recovery strategies preserving growth	Sayre, ch. 12
16	Continued growth not justified	Sayre, ch. 11
17	Growth driven by desire for wealth	Sayre, ch.13
18	The limited resources of environmental ethics	Sayre, ch.14
19	Lecture #6 - Production driven by social values	Sayre, ch. 15
20	Leopold's land ethic	Leopold (1949), "The Land Ethic"
21	Ecologically destructive values	Sayre, ch.16
22	Values for social survival	Sayre, ch.17
23	Lecture #7 - Dismantling consumer society	Ponting (1993) ch. 15.
24	Student Papers
25	Student Papers
26	What one can do	Sayre ch.18
27	Lecture #8 - Doing one's part	Gore (1992)
28	Review
29	Final

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