Consider the potential impact of topics we have studied in 25 years.
What are the most plausible impacts? What progress or failures are to be expected for Human Rights (and Sustainability)? What can we do globally as individuals or communities to be sustainable, and how does this relate to human rights?
Bennett suggests that we read Le Guins story primarly through an eco-feminist perspective, yet Le Guins The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas seems to be primarily about human rights. How do these two topics relate to each other and why should they (or should they not) be considered together?
The historical perspective on human rights in our readings relate back the Civil Rights Movement, Apartheid in South Africa, independence and caste in India, and possibly voting rights for women. Each of these is 25 years in the past (or more). How do you envision future changes or challenges to these struggles for rights across the next 25 years? Are there research documents or government policy programs that suggest what changes we should expect across the coming 25 years?
Combining Units 1 & 2, how do sustainability and human rights inter-relate to each other? For example, how does the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights relate to the UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals? Are both achievable together? How do the material landscapes for energy distribution challenge the changes needed for sustainability and political stability?
Recalling Culture/culture in UNIV 2001, you might consider how material landscapes and cultural practices (sustainability and human rights) are collectively a part of petroculturesin other words, how are our Culture & culture shaped by the material reality of petroleum-based energy distribution and extraction that itself changes our material environment?
