Topic: How are humans sustained by earth? What impacts do humans have on Earth? How are these relationships mediated- socially, economically, ecologically and culturally?
Needs to use at least 3 of these books:
1.Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth’s Biodiversity By Jeffrey K. McKee
2.Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansionism of Europe, 900-1900 New Edition By Alfred Crosby
3.An Essay on The Principle of Population By Thomas Robert Malthus A Norton Critical Edition 2nd Edition (chapters 1-7&16)
4.First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology By Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr.
5.Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World By Mike Davis
6.Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s By Donal Worster
Do NOT use too many direct quotes, paraphrase and be sure to quote properly.
Use a Works Cited page, MLA
Focus on the relationship between growing population and the effects it causes in nature through: agriculture, irrigation, habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, overproduction of green house gases, deforestation and urban expansion.
Make sure to have a very strong thesis statement in the Introduction and a very strong conclusion!!!!
