Discussion: American Environmental Movement

Discussion: American Environmental Movement

Discussion: American Environmental Movement

Prompt:

If you were there that night on the rim of The Canyon, would you have agreed with Pinchot and killed the poisonous spider, or Muir and let it be? Why or why not?

What if the spider were in your house tonight, would you kill the spider? Why or why not?

What would have been Leopold’s view if he were there that night on the Canyon rim, or at your house?

Requirements:

Your paper should be a deep and thoughtful discussion of the philosophical similarities and differences of the three icons of the American Environmental Movement, the social, economic, and scientific origins, or those views, and the implications and consequences for environmental policy today.

You should also explain the basis of your views. It is this last part of the paper that is the most important. You can do outside research for your paper, if you want.

The paper should be 4 to 6 pages long. Double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, as a Word Doc.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.