- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
There is no planet B: Literature and essay against climate change denial 3302-PBLE-OG
Although scientists all around the world agree anthropogenic global warming is a great threat to human wellbeing or even existence, climate change denialism and scepticism are very popular attitudes. Scientists, philosophers, journalists, and writers don’t give up: they share their knowledge and try to explain great derangements (like fossil fuels industry impact on disinformation about the climate change perils), discuss myths and bias, and create stories about sustainable ways of life.
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Assessment criteria
in-class presentations, one-to-one conferences (if required)
2 absences are allowed, more absences (only reasonable excuse) = one-to-one conference + written assignment
Bibliography
1) Timothy Morton Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013) 2) David Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth (2017) When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans? (nymag.com)
3) Nathaniel Rich Losing Earth. The Decade we almost Stopped Climate Change (2018) Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
4) John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Stephan Lewandowsky, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change (2013) America-misled-John-Cook.pdf (cssn.org)
5) Núria Almiron and Jordi Xifra (ed.) Climate Change Denial and Public Relations Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction (2020)
6) Amitav Ghosh The Great Derangement (2016)
7) Amitav Ghosh The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021)
8) Eduardo Konh How Forests Think (2013)
9) Ursula Le Guin The Word for World is Forest (1972)
10) Ursula Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
11) Richard Powers The Overstory (2018)
12) Richard Powers Bewilderment (2021)
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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