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[Social Practice minor] As the globe warms, cities sprawl, traffic crawls (or flies through the telecom infrastructure), and humankind hangs satellites in near space, we find we’ve come to a crisis as we think about the impact of our outlook on, attitudes toward, and beliefs about the environment. Just how durable is our world? What assumptions have we made about its capacity to return to equilibrium? What actions do we take or what habits have we made that we’ve never even considered risky? In this course, we will read writing on the environment from the past century and rethink our own thinking about the environment in order to understand its problems more clearly and find what solutions we can while there’s still time.