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Module 5 Learning Activity

So to recap. As this sign-waving person is doing in the image I don't see giving up as an option. Yes. I think climate change is a much bigger problem than most people do. We are obviously going to regret having gone down this path and not having taken action 30-40 years ago when we could have much more easily started making the kinds of policy changes that would've made a big difference by today.

At the end of the day, though, giving up just is not an option. It's not an ethical option, and given the fact that we could do better and we have the tools to do better, it just isn't the right approach to take. In this learning activity I'll point you to a number of different websites that you might want to take a look at. We'll dig into this issue a little more deeply as well in the online ebook that is available to you as part of the coure.

In the next module, notwithstanding the size of this challenge, the reality is that individuals do matter and individual actions do matter. I'm going to make that case to you, and lay out why that's the case. I'll see you there!

Additional Materials

I mentioned the Deep Adaptation movement, and here are a few ways you can dig more deeply into it.

The topic of adapting to climate change is a large one, and one that is largely outside the scope of this course. But you might want to take a look at:

The question of “Should We Give Up?” really has two subparts: 1) Is there any reason to think we can improve the situation, and 2) regardless of the answer to #1, what does climate ethics require of us?

With regard to the first question, a few resources:

With regard to the second question regarding ethics, a topic we discuss far too little, a few resources: