Written Assignment A for both Grads and Undergrads.

 

Answer the questions below after viewing the CBS documentary film titled “Earth First” and hand in your answers during next week’s class.

 

1. With reference to environmental worldviews discussed in class, describe the worldview of the environmental group called Earth First as explained in the film. What are their core beliefs?

 

2. Explain how the environmental group interprets the phrase “Earth First”. What does the phrase mean to them and what is its significance?

 

3. List 4 tactics (termed monkey wrenching in the film) that the environmental group employs to stop loggers from cutting and processing timber. Do you approve of these tactics? Why or why not?

 

4.  How do people in the timber industry view and describe the activities of the environmental group called “Earth First”? Why do you think they speak about them that way? Explain your answer.

 

5. Would you consider the activities of the environmental group called Earth First as “Terrorism” or “Patriotism”? Explain your answer.

 

6. How do the activities of the Earth First Group compare with the patriotic action of a group of Bostoners who sabotaged the shipment of tea from the New England Colonies to England (leading to what has been termed in history as “Boston Tea Party”). In what ways were the 2 activities similar and how were they different?

 

Written Assignment B: for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

 

Questions on Issue Issue 3, 10th ED) Read the above Issue of the book Taking Sides (Are Environmental Regulations too Restrictive?) and answer the following questions.

 

1.  Summarize the main arguments for the Yes side (at least one paragraph) and Give 2 reasons to refute the main argument/s made by the author of the Yes Side.

 

2.  Summarize the main arguments of the NO Side and give 2 reasons to refute the main arguments presented in the paper.