COR 432 TO BOLDLY BELONG: SPACE EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTALISM AS SUSTAINABLE QUESTS
What do tree-huggers and rocket boys have in common? Space exploration and environmentalism are both sustainability quests dedicated to protecting or seeking out life and securing a future for life in general and for humanity in particular. This course combines philosophy with the sciences to examine how the quest for sustainable life on an imperiled Earth and the quest for sustainable exploration of space have much to say to each other, even as their advocates champion very different paradigms for global priorities and funding. This course is writing intensive. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.