WAC 100A UC Los Angeles Climate Change and Global Warming In the Future Paper The PaperImagine yourself in a 3° world – the stakes are high: the California

WAC 100A UC Los Angeles Climate Change and Global Warming In the Future Paper The PaperImagine yourself in a 3° world – the stakes are high: the
California coastal cities are flooded out, and the flood waters
meet desertification, fires, and populations searching for
food. California agriculture, which fed the world, no longer
exists. Or supermarkets or gas stations. We will all be facing
hardship and upheaval. What are the values that will sustain
you and your family as the economy collapses with the
environment? What sacrifices will you make, and how will
you explain those sacrifices to your children?

Write about how you will cope with and respond to the
changes that 3° of global warming will make in your life
in the next 25 years.

Write about the changes in your life that you will
CHOOSE to make. How are you deciding to live
differently?

Knowing what lies ahead, will you decide to bring
children into this world?

How will you decide to raise children in the context of
the huge environmental, social, and economic changes
that will be underway? What are your strategies? Write
about the positive effects of raising children in these
difficult times. What will be the high points of their
lives? And write about things that will be difficult.

• Conclude your paper with what you will have to say to
your children at breakfast 25 years from now, when
they are the age that you are now – college seniors.
This paper is meant to be helpful to you as you imagine and
chart the next 10 to 25 years of your life. When you write, be
as specific as possible to your real life and your real life
choices so that the act of writing the paper becomes useful,
creative, courageous, and informative. More Guidlines Below WAC 100A – Fall 2019
Art as Social Action
Professor Peter Sellars
Final Paper Assignment:
Due December 18, 2019 at 12 PM
(via CCLE)
The paper should be 8 – 10 pages
Preamble
In class on Monday night, November 4th, author and scientist Dr. Holly Buck, was asked quietly, privately
what she personally thought was in store as the climate emergency deepens in the next decades. She
paused and finally confessed that she thought the scenario of 3° of global warming is probably likely
because the world is just not getting organized quickly enough to respond to the climate disaster.
Research Online what 3° of global warming means.
There are a number of useful websites that pop up quickly ranging from:
• “What would 3 degrees mean?” by David Spratt
http://www.climatecodered.org/2010/09/what-would-3-degrees-mean.html
•
“Global temperatures on track for 3-5 degree rise by 2100: U.N.” by Tom Miles
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-un/global-temperatures-on-track-for-3-5-degreerise-by-2100-u-n-idUSKCN1NY186
•
“The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming” by Josh Holder,
Niko Kommenda and Jonathan Watts
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drownedglobal-warming
•
3 Degrees Warmer: Heat Wave Fatalities

•
What Will Happen As The World Gets Warmer?
https://news.sky.com/story/what-will-happen-as-the-world-gets-warmer-10336299
Or probe more deeply into the local and specific repercussions
of what 3° of warming will mean to us here in California.
The projections are quite serious.
But that is not the whole story, as Holly Buck noted in her perceptive and creative book, After
Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair and Restoration. The repairs and restoration that Holly
highlights in her book suggest another profoundly positive set of possibilities. The high capitalist,
colonialist, White supremacist views that have dominated the world’s legal and financial systems for
several generations, monetizing life itself, people, animals, and precious natural resources, have skewed
our most basic approaches to living. We stand now at the summit of the most extreme levels of social
inequality in the history of the planet. And the history of social injustice is deeply entwined with
environmental injustice – the sites of greatest environmental degradation tend to be at or near the sites of
greatest human degradation.
The climate emergency is a wake-up call for our civilization, a
message to human beings from the Earth: we are not living well.
We are living very badly, out of balance with morality, with nature, and with ourselves. The planet is
offering us an invitation to begin to live differently, in balance, with mindfulness, awareness, fairness,
compassion, and generosity. We are being invited to recognize the equality of all people and all things.
Perhaps the climate emergency carries deep and positive seeds
of renewal. And repair. And restoration.
The Paper
Imagine yourself in a 3° world – the stakes are high: the
California coastal cities are flooded out, and the flood waters
meet desertification, fires, and populations searching for
food. California agriculture, which fed the world, no longer
exists. Or supermarkets or gas stations. We will all be facing
hardship and upheaval. What are the values that will sustain
you and your family as the economy collapses with the
environment? What sacrifices will you make, and how will
you explain those sacrifices to your children?
• Write about how you will cope with and respond to the
changes that 3° of global warming will make in your life
in the next 25 years.
• Write about the changes in your life that you will
CHOOSE to make. How are you deciding to live
differently?
• Knowing what lies ahead, will you decide to bring
children into this world?
• How will you decide to raise children in the context of
the huge environmental, social, and economic changes
that will be underway? What are your strategies? Write
about the positive effects of raising children in these
difficult times. What will be the high points of their
lives? And write about things that will be difficult.
• Conclude your paper with what you will have to say to
your children at breakfast 25 years from now, when
they are the age that you are now – college seniors.
This paper is meant to be helpful to you as you imagine and
chart the next 10 to 25 years of your life. When you write, be
as specific as possible to your real life and your real life
choices so that the act of writing the paper becomes useful,
creative, courageous, and informative.
Guidelines
1) This paper is for you and is intended to mark an important moment of arrival,
departure, or transition in your own life. Please write the paper that you need to
write at this time in your life, a paper that can serve you as a guide, a reminder, a
moment of vision, a period of reflection, assessment, regrouping, reaffirmation,
revitalization, and renewed commitment.
2) Please write this paper for yourself. This paper will be important for you to read
in 10, 20 and 30 years from now. You are writing at a formative moment in your
life and the act of writing this paper will be a significant contribution to the
formation of your future. This paper is an act of self-empowerment. Take the
time to write beautifully.
3) Academic language is completely unacceptable, as it tends to falsify, inflate,
deflect, routine, or otherwise calcify the nature of your actual experience. You
are the only person in the world who has had your experiences. You, therefore,
are the expert and the authority, and your search for your own words to
understand and describe your experiences, and the aspirations, values, belief
systems, and personal standards that are a result of those experiences, is itself an
act of courage and care and is a gift to the world.
4) The paper should address issues or situations that you have dealt with in the past
or are in the process of dealing with right now in your life. It must also look
forward, and become an occasion for you to project yourself into your own future,
and create a scenario in the life that you would like to live.
5) It is important to be very clear about motives, their complexities and
contradictions, and to deal as accurately as possible with the layered personal,
political, social, economic, psychological, or religious contexts of the
environment in which you are acting. Those tensions, and their repercussions,
create the need and opportunity for leadership, honesty, attentiveness, mutual
recognition, divergence, and skill. The more honest you are, the more surprising
and helpful your writing will become.
6) All narrative is “multiple” — voices, time frames, and points of view. Experience
is both intensely personal and shared. A deeper look into the intensely personal
side reveals that you yourself have many voices and conflicting selves. And, an
acknowledgment of shared experience leads to the awareness that so does
everyone else.
7) Many people spend a lot of time doing things that do not need to be done. This
paper, in contrast, should be something that needs to be done. This paper should
be something that helps you and the people around you, a moment in your life
which you can focus your attentions and intentions unselfishly. As with the
creation of any work of art, this paper will require you to deal with what you do
not understand as well as with what you imagine you understand. The struggle
towards understanding is your own story of complexity, subtlety, skill, tenderness,
insight, persistence, and humility.
8) Infinitude. Open-endedness is one of the most important aspects of your life. It is
important to be conscious of ongoing processes and continuously transforming
experience. In fact, your life has no fixed points; experiences are lived and
relived, always with new meanings and new possibilities. Even as you are
writing, talking, and acting, things are changing.
9) The paper should be 8 – 10 pages.

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