Instruction
PHIL - Critical Responses
1-2) In this course you will have to write two critical responses to the book by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, Surviving the Climate Crisis. Should be typed, double spaced, and 750 words in length. It should have the following structure:
• Briefly summarize what each of the two chapters of the book you have selected is about.
• Identify a main claim made in this chapter.
• Reconstruct the author’s argument in support of this claim. (Be charitable in your interpretation of the argument.)
• Discuss the strength and weakness of this argument, in particular, how well you think it can be justified (by example, analogy, authority, cause, or some other form of reasoning).
Book: Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, Surviving the Climate Crisis (Knopf, 2020) = SCC
3)Watch the movie Awake: A Vision from Standing Rock (https://awakethefilm.org (Links to an external site.)), then read the discussion guide available at the link below. Write a one-page essay in response to one of the questions at the end of the guide.
http://www.mercymidatlantic.org/PDF/Film_Discussion_Guide_AWAKE_A_Dream_from_Standing_Rock.pdf (Links to an external site.)