Imagine that you’ve won a contest in which the NY Times or some other national publication offers you $5000 to write an essay focused on the topics we’re discussing in this course for a reminder, reread the Course Description reprinted at the end. Your essay will be published as part of a series of opinion pieces titled ” Voices of the Future: How College Freshmen View the Coming Decades .” Use the sources that were attached to the “Files” to provide evidence for your argument using information and/or quotation from the readings.
Course description:
Young people today are inheriting a world of massive, cascading crisis: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the growing failures of capitalism , mounting climate disruption , the mass extinction of species , and the threat of nuclear war Global civilization may be reaching the limits that scientists and activists have warned against for many decades limits to growth in population , to the exploitation and pollution of the natural world , and to the economic exploitation of each other Humanity faces the urgent task of rethinking and transforming many of the institutions , technologies , and cultural values that have shaped the present -day world, if civilized society is to survive. As individuals , we face an uncertain in which our society’s expectations of continuous advance and growth in standard of living has already begun to falter.
