senior seminar fall 2008 isp 4860 section 003 (bowen) class 12, november 19 course web site:

Senior Seminar Fall 2008ISP 4860

Section 003 (Bowen)

Class 12, November 19Course web site: www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/SenSemF08

11/19/08 Senior Seminar F08, Class 12 2

Textbooks

• I will be teaching this course again Winter 2009

• Using same textbooks

• Campus bookstore should be interested in buying them back as used


Agenda

• Late / returned / future assignments• Content:

The credit crunch Development and Disease

• Writing Combining Files (repeat, but with Word 2003)

• Oral Presentations


New Course resources• www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/SenSemF08

Bankruptcy problems Fisheries Management Health – poor care for chronic conditions in

US, mosquito netting in Africa Ecosystem – recycling in construction, world

CO2 emissions leveling off Water – drip irrigation could increase water

use without controls

http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/SenSemF08


Past Assignments• Due 10/15: draft of Chapter 1 (overview) • Due 10/22: drafts of

Chapter 2 – status in focus area Chapter 3 – trends in focus area

• Due 10/29: revised Chapter 1• Due 11/5:

Chapters 2 & 3 revised If no Chapter 1, Section Planner for Chapter 1 If you are behind, schedule for catching up


Past Assignments• Due 11/11: drafts of:

Chapter 4: Sustainability in your focus area (sustainability – can we make it to 2050?)

Chapter 5: Review of your focus area and the human footprint


Due Tonight

• No assignment due this week


Assignments Coming Up

• November 26: no class (go to Friday classes, go to Thursday classes on 11/25)

• December 3: Final paper (5 chapters)• December 10: 5-minute oral presentation


Assignment Status• I am getting worried about a pile-up at the

end Not concerned about people who are a few

days late I will not be able to review drafts that come

piling in at the end People who are very late will not have time to

do a good job Grades for these people may be delayed Reminder – a component of the course grade

comes for getting assignments in on time


Grade Letter

• You get two copies

• Me as an example

• For each assignment that you haven’t done (blank or No beside it), fill in the date by which you plan to have it done, or leave it blank if you do not intend to do it

• Turn that copy in this week


Research portfolio

• Self-assessment 12/3


Credit Crunch

• Big Three (or just Three) asking for “bridge loan” until credit crunch lets up Claim is that low sales and losses are

because consumers are fearful, unwilling to take on debt, also cannot get credit

Claim is also that once the credit crunch is over, they can be competitive in small car market


Credit Crunch

• Arguments being made against loans (current reality in parentheses): repair problems not innovative (so many improvements it’s a problem) not energy-efficient (new models higher mileage) not quality (recent JD Powers ratings competitive) overpaid, huge benefits (legacy costs offloaded in

new contracts, many UAW concessions) making cars no one wants to buy (every reason to

believe new models will be popular, can make cars that people buy in Europe, China)


Credit Crunch

• Some arguments may be deserved Trucks and SUVs were a narrow niche Costs still somewhat higher

• But arguments keep getting made – why? Ignorance? Malice?

• What about bankruptcy? People would not buy their cars Bankruptcy is not working in US (news)


Credit Crunch

• As citizens lose jobs, lose homes, the national safety net is not as strong as it used to be

• Do we need to strengthen it? Right thing to do Keep everyone participating in the money

wheel or else we all suffer (analogy with natural recycling of materials)


Credit Crunch

• Euro Zone and Japan in recession

• 11/19 (Bloomberg) Canada facing troubles now

• G20 summit: List of steps to take, next meeting Underdeveloped countries represented, said

they needed aid to cope with effects

• Summers testimony: stimulus 2 – 3 years


Credit Crunch

• China, India and sub-Saharan Africa still have growing economies

• We need them to keep growing so they can buy from us


Credit Crunch• Economy: a complicated system that we do

not understand• Without knowing what is wrong, we

don’t know how to fix it. Stock market tanked when Paulson said TARP

program would switch to consumer credit Administration now says they will wait for

Obama to request second half of $700 Billion• We are also ignorant about ecosystem!• Connie Austin-Gentris – managing

personal credit


Energy Costs

• Gasoline cost went up this summer, has been coming down – why?

• Demand has decreased with the economic problems

• Supply is stretched thin, so small changes become big changes in cost

• Two supply systems – extraction and refining

• Reluctance to construct more facilities


Global Warming

• Higher incidence of fires in California

• Governor Schwarzenegger: summer fires have changed to year-round fires

• Attributed to Global Warming Heat Less water

• New methods produce fire-safe homes Shelter in place, firefighters also

Disease and Development

PIP: Pp 32 - 35

SOP: Pp 167 – 171


Urban Development

• Planet in Peril Europe has sprawl with few large cities US more “conurbations” – clusters of large

cities Asian cities growing fastest, will have ~12

cities > 20 million population by 2020 In many cities poor squatters are largest

group Suggestion to give the poor property rights


Urban Development

• Rich increasingly in gated communities

• Large cities have: Stock market Headquarters of firms

• Water and food shortages

• Increasing energy consumption

• Noise


Widening Health Care Gap

• PIP Daily tolls:

• HIV/AIDS: 8,000• TB: 6,000• Malaria: 3,000 (mainly children)

Uneven care• Large western drug companies want money for

research• Many doctors leave poor areas for US and Europe• Poverty, short-term aid


Disease

• State of the Planet

• Poor Countries Nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene 26% Parasitic worms, e.g. hookworm, roundworm

• Can often be controlled by simple methods

Infectious diseases, returning (dengue) and new (Ebola) growing

• Rich countries – diseases of excess Diabetes, cardio-vascular disease


Economic Development

• State of the Planet 2008

• After a certainpoint, littleadditionalsatisfactionfrom presentpropserity

• Room for alternatives?



• Look at countries above $15,000 GNP per capita:

• Virtually no improvement in satisfaction with income

• Get more, that becomes the new norm

• Some experiments with lower consumption, but these are marginal

• Conservation: use less through efficiency



• Cannot sustain rich world’s per capita consumption if world becomes rich

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Now difficult, must make these easier to do

• Innovation with virtual world

• Being connected, plugged in

Writing


Definitions

Definitions, Senior Essay, Fall 2008 Sovereign Wealth Fund Profits accumulating to a countryAlbedo Fraction of solar radiation that is reflectedAnthropogenic Due to human activityArable Farmable, fertileBiodiversity Having a wide range of speciesCommons Area where costs are shared but gain is privateEcosystem Services Services and materials supplied to humans by natureEnvironmental Services Cleaning up after human activityHectare 10,000 square meters 2.5 US acresPotable Safe for drinkingSocial Capital The value of functioning organizations and customsSolvent (financially) Assets exceed liabilitiesSustainability Not using more than Nature can replenishTonne Metric ton, 1000 kilograms 2200 poundsTyphoon Hurricane


Combining Files1. Open the first file normally2. Scroll to the bottom and place the insertion point after or at the end of the last line in the file3. Insert a page break

• 2003 or earlier: Choose the "Insert" menu item, then "Break," then "Page Break"• 2007: Choose the "Insert" item on the ribbon, then "Page Break" on the left

4. Place the insertion point in the new page5. Open the second file separately (that is, keeping the first file open)6. Select the entire contents of the second file

• 2003 or earlier: Choose the "Edit" menu item, then "Select All"• 2007: On the "Home" item on the ribbon, on the right end, choose "Select," then "Select All"

7. Copy the selection to the clipboard• 2003 or earlier: Choose the "Edit" menu item, then "Copy"• 2007: On the "Home" item on the ribbon, on the left end, click on the "Copy" icon (two overlapping pieces of

paper)• OR Both: hold down the "Ctrl" key then tap "C" and release both keys

8. Click on the first file and Paste the second document into it, from the clipboard• 2003 or earlier: Choose the "Edit" menu item, then "Paste"• 2007: On the "Home" item on the ribbon, on the left end, click on the "Paste" icon• OR Both: hold down the "Ctrl" key then tap "V" and release both keys

9. Save the first document10. Close the second document11. Go to step 2 for the next document, and repeat until done

Oral Reports


Oral Reports on Papers

• December 10 – last regular class

• Has everyone had ISP 1560, “Dimensions of Oral Communication,” or equivalent?

• Handout, discussion

senior seminar fall 2008 isp 4860 section 003 (bowen) class 12, november 19 course web site:

Documents

draft of chapter

revised chapter

focus area sustainability

focus areachapter

focus areadue

course grade

oral presentationsnew

new contracts