Full topic: Is global warming a human rights issue? If so, how can anthropological approaches to human rights as concepts and actions help us talk about and deal with the dramatic changes to our planets bio-chemical-physical systems? Can anthropology help us rethink what it means to be human in the Anthropocene?

Answer ONE of the following prompts in 1000 words, minimum. Be sure to cite all relevant readings, class discussions and presentations, and films.  The purpose of this assignment is to flex your analytical and critical muscles, not to show that you did the readings. How are you making sense of the concepts and themes we have addressed thus far in the semester?

Readings/Videos: 1.Scranton, Roy, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, and Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.

2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2Znc21TWY

3. The rest of the reading are going to be attached