CONSUMING UTOPIA: FROM WILDERNESS TO WAL-MART
Fall, Winter, 2005-2006

Course Resources

**The following handouts are word documents unless otherwise noted.

Elwha Dam Removal Gets Final Go-ahead
Marc Reisner Obituary
A New Weapon for Wal-Mart: A War Room
By Michael Barbero
Published: November 1, 2005 New York Times
Owens Valley Mural
By Randal C. Archibold
Published: November 3, 2005 New York Times
Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society
NPR: Morning Edition, January 23, 2006
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
By Andrew C. Revkin
Published: January 29, 2006 New York Times
Toast the Earth with Exxon Mobil
Editorial: Censoring Truth
The Bush administration set a new standard of cynicism when it allowed NASA's leading authority on global warming to be mugged by a 24-year-old who had inflated his résumé.
Published: February 9, 2006 New York Times
Editorial Observer: Good News From New Guinea
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
A sigh of relief at the thought of what we don't know.
OPINION | February 19, 2006 New York Times
Bush's Chat With Novelist Alarms Environmentalists
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, "State of Fear," suggests that global warming is an unproven theory and an overstated threat.
NATIONAL | February 19, 2006 New York Times
Europe's chill linked to disease
By Kate Ravilious
Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.
BBC News February 27, 2006