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Consider the causes of the current ecological crisis—where this crisis is understood to include the interrelated phenomena that are depleting the Earth, poisoning life, and exacerbating poverty and inequality. In particular, consider:

•Technological causes: Including factors such as the use of fossil fuels, modern transportation technologies, improved sanitation and health technologies, or industrial agricultural methods (this is not an exhaustive list).

•Economic and political causes: Including factors such as growth–based (GDP) economics, the nature of modern corporations and their political power, global finance and debt, models of development, governance based on short–term time–frames, etc.

•Psychological, ideological,and ethical causes: Including ideologies of domination (patriarchy, anthropocentrism) and colonisation, individualism, materialism and consumerism, etc.

Begin your 1200–1400 word paper (word count excludes title and reference list) with a brief description of the nature of the current ecological crisis and clearly identify one technology, one economic/political, and one psychological/ethical cause you will consider in your paper (about 150–200 words).

The following three sections could appear in any order, but in your introduction make clear the order you will consider them in:

•Identify, describe, and identify a key technological innovation or factor that has undermined sustainability, exacerbated the ecological crisis, or served as an obstacle to substantive change. Why was this technology adopted? How has it undermined sustainability or contributed to environmental degradation? To what extent? Then, consider one economic, political, psychological, or value–related factor that has interacted with this innovation or factor that might have compounded the damage it has caused or made it more difficult to change or address(Why? How?). (Guideline: 250–350 words)

•Identify, describe, and identify an economic or political factor that has undermined sustainability, exacerbated the ecological crisis, or served as an obstacle to substantive change. How has this factor undermined sustainability or contributed to environmental degradation? To what extent? Then, consider one technological, psychological, or value–related factor that has interacted with this factor that might have reinforced it or compounded the damage it has caused or made it more difficult to change or address (Why? How?). Note that this interaction should be different than the one identified in the previous point. (Guideline: 250–350 words)

•Identify, describe, and identify a psychological or value–related factor that has undermined sustainability, exacerbated the ecological crisis, or served as an obstacle to substantive change. How has this factor undermined sustainability or contributed to environmental degradation? To what extent? Then, consider one technological, a political, or economic factor that has interacted with this factor that might have reinforced it or compounded the damage it has caused or made it more difficult to change or address (Why? How?). Note that this interaction should be different than the one identified in the previous points. (Guideline: 250–350 words)

Conclude your paper (200–300 words) by describing at least one possible way that the ecological crisis could be addressed and a more sustainable human society could be created based on the analysis of causes described previously in the paper.

Use of course materials:

Over the course of your paper, make sure that you draw on course references (and, optionally, additional academic references) to support your argument. At a minimum, draw on two different course lectures and four different core course readings (from at least three different weeks of the course). The best papers will draw on a greater diversity of course sources and may also include additional academic references or optional readings.

Referencing Style

Reference your paper using a simplified APA style, but make sure that all in–text citations include a page or slide number (even if it is not a direct quote).

•Books are cited in the format (Authors, pp. #)

•Lectures may be citedmore simply in the format (Lecture 1, slide #)

•In–class videos maybe referenced using the video title, lecture number, and video time index: ex. (Welcome to the Anthropocene, Lecture 1, 2:00–2:20). Make sure to include a reference list in simplified APA format:

•Books should be referenced as in the syllabus (or in proper APA).

•Lectures may be referenced simply as “Lecture #, date” •In–class videos in the form “VideoTitle, Lecture #.”