Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week. Here is the plan for class.

1 – Introduction and check-in

2 – Reading discussion – planetary boundaries and indicators (please make sure to read at least two of the following chapters before class)

Angus, I. (2016) Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth   System, 2016) 

Part 1 – A No-Analog State
Chapter 1 – A Second Copernican Revolution (27 – 37)
Chapter 2 – The Great Acceleration (38 – 47)
Chapter 3 – When did the Anthropocene Begin? (48 – 58)
Chapter 4 – Tipping Points, Climate Chaos and Planetary Boundaries (59 – 77)
Chapter 5 – First Near-Catastrophe (78 – 88)
Chapter 6 – A New (and Deadly) Climate Regime (89 – 106)

3 – Discussion and presentation of idea for final project