{"id":13969,"date":"2023-04-13T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/some-people-maintain-that-science-and-technology-can-lead-us-down-a-sustainable-path-how-since-the-19th-century-has-science-and-technology-been-used-in-an-attempt-to-do-this-and-how-has-it-also-creat\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:19:09","slug":"some-people-maintain-that-science-and-technology-can-lead-us-down-a-sustainable-path-how-since-the-19th-century-has-science-and-technology-been-used-in-an-attempt-to-do-this-and-how-has-it-also-creat","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/some-people-maintain-that-science-and-technology-can-lead-us-down-a-sustainable-path-how-since-the-19th-century-has-science-and-technology-been-used-in-an-attempt-to-do-this-and-how-has-it-also-creat\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people maintain that science and technology can lead us down a sustainable path. How since the 19th century has science and technology been used in an attempt to do this and how has it also created challenges to sustainability?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To complete the essay, you are required to write (using third-person language only) a<\/p>\n

maximum five-page essay addressing the prompts below. You must use twelve-point font (Times<\/div>\n
New-Roman is the most economical with space). You will need to put a lot of thought not only<\/div>\n
into the content of the paper but also into the presentation of your response. Your essay needs to<\/div>\n
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as if you are writing to educate someone who has no familiarity with this topic or the course<\/div>\n
readings. If you quote from one of the readings, either note the author\u2019s name in the sentence or<\/div>\n
the source title and page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence. For example:<\/div>\n
According to Donald Worster in The Wealth of Nature, \u201cWe have no full history of the word, but<\/div>\n
its origins appear to lie in the concept of \u2018sustained-yield.\u2019\u201d (Note that book titles are put in<\/div>\n
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a quote within a quote, as \u201csustained-yield\u201d appears here, is placed within single quotation<\/div>\n
marks. This is the only reason for using single quotation marks.)<\/div>\n
The prompt:<\/div>\n
Some people maintain that science and technology (defined as machines and innovations,<\/div>\n
and the systems to implement science and technology) can lead us down a sustainable path.<\/div>\n
How since the 19th century has science and technology been used in an attempt to do this and<\/div>\n
how has it also created challenges to sustainability? (Think about all the materials we\u2019ve read<\/div>\n
and the themes we\u2019ve discussed since Jennifer Price. Think of the New Deal, dams, the<\/div>\n
chemical age, old and new technologies, and more.)<\/div>\n
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Allowed Sources: <\/div>\n
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  • Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures With nature in Modern America, chap 1Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures With nature in Modern America, chap 1<\/li>\n
  • Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, chaps 6 & 7.Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, chaps 6 & 7.<\/li>\n
  • Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, prologue.Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, prologue.<\/li>\n
  • Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, chaps 8-10Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, chaps 8-10<\/li>\n
  • Cyrenus Wheeler, “Sewers: Ancient and Modern,” (Cayuga County Hist. Soc.,Cyrenus Wheeler, “Sewers: Ancient and Modern,” (Cayuga County Hist. Soc., 1887)<\/li>\n
  • Anne Whiston Spirn, \u201cConstructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted,\u201d Uncommon Ground, 91-113<\/li>\n
  • Jared Orsi, \u201cFrom Horicon to Hamburgers and Back Again: Ecology, Ideology, and Wildfowl Management, 1917-1935,\u201d Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994): 19-40<\/li>\n
  • Worster, The Wealth of Nature, chap 6.<\/li>\n
  • Kevin Roose, \u201cSheep Lawn Mowers, and Other Go-Getters,\u201d New York Times, November 2, 2011(Google the title to find on-line).<\/li>\n
  • Wesley Arden Dick, \u201cWhen Dams Weren\u2019t Damned: The Public Power Crusade and Visions of the Good Life in the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s,\u201d Environmental Review 13 (Autumn-Winter 1989): 113-53.<\/li>\n
  • Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, chaps, 5 & 6, 145-213.<\/li>\n
  • Film: Cadillac Desert, episode 1.<\/li>\n
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, \u201cBeautification,\u201d Roderick Nash ed., American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, 181-86.<\/li>\n
  • Rachel Carson, \u201cPesticides,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 191-94. <\/li>\n
  • President\u2019s Science Advisory Committee, \u201cPollution,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 195-201.<\/li>\n
  • Paul Ehrlich, \u201cOverpopulation,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 202-05.<\/li>\n
  • Barry Commoner, \u201cFundamental Causes of the Environmental Crisis,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 206-14.<\/li>\n
  • The Council on Environmental Quality, \u201cThe State of the Environment,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 215-26.<\/li>\n
  • Samuel P. Hays, \u201cFrom Conservation to Environmentalism,\u201d Nash, American Environmentalism, 144-52.<\/li>\n
  • Film: Gimme Green<\/li>\n
  • Andrew Kirk, \u201cAppropriating Technology\u201d The Whole Earth Catalog and Counterculture Environmental Politics,\u201d Environmental History 6 (July 2001): 374-94.<\/li>\n
  • Mauricio Schoijet, \u201cLimits to Growth and the Rise of Catastrophism,\u201d Environmental History 4 (October 1999): 515-30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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