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Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society Podcast

Author: George Brimhall
Publisher: webcast.berkeley

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Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society Podcast

webcast.berkeley Course - EPS/LS 170AC

by George Brimhall

We live in a country in crisis where history is being made that will impact the future of planet Earth. The US plays a determinative role in these events and faces a crossroads in its resource policy. Contradictions between our materialistic lifestyle, the limitations of the Earth to provide for our growing needs, foreign policies in the Middle East and the lack of an effective energy policy, have polarized political discourse over conflicting ideologies. What lies behind these divergent views ? How can this impasse be overcome ? What lessons can we learn from the history of the West-marked both by remarkable achievements deserving of international respect as it is by injustice, dispossession, internment of ethnic groups and warfare by a superpower in need of resources?

We explore the peoples of the West through lectures, discussions, and documentary and popular films. An uncommon history is developed of cultural interaction with the land; conflicts over space, and unprecedented demand on earth resources that support society. We will explore some overlooked historical facts that expose the underlying motivation for decisive governmental actions. Federal statutes covered include the Homestead Act, Mining Act, Chinese Exclusion Act, and Japanese Internment Camps. This varied legacy of the American West and its meaning to different peoples, in combination with corporate influence, in some measure shapes the divergent ideologies today. Can productive common ground be found that ennobles the American legacy?

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The Great Basin During the Holocene and Peopleing the Land

webcast@media.berkeley.edu Author: George Brimhall
Thu, Jan 19, 2006

Trade routes and exchange material based on obsidian and artifact geochemistry; tectonic basis for why rocks like volcanic obsidian occur where they do; geological foundation of the landscape and useful earth materials.

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A Country of Illusion

webcast@media.berkeley.edu Author: George Brimhall
Tue, Jan 24, 2006

A country of Illusion; John Wesley Powell's Green River Expedition of 1869; Prediction of catastrophe if the West was settled without major water redistribution; Owen's Valley- its Geological origin, landscape, climate history; arid landscape today, Indian poetry of the area, Building the hydraulic Empire for Los Angeles.