Visions & Values Statement
You will synthesize what you learned in this class—especially drawing on knowledge about how race, ethnicity, class, and gender inequalities and power relations have created an unjust, unequitable, and unsustainable world—to develop a statement of your visions, values, and ethics.
Your statement can draw from any course materials, but you should particularly focus on the reading/materials of the last several sessions. These articles put forward arguments for connecting various struggles of freedom and equality–such as housing, food, and Indigenous liberation–to solutions for the environmental crisis. Overall, the statement answers:
What world do you envision given the knowledge and values you have learned about and what will your role be in constructing it?
In your statement, develop a thesis statement and include answers to the following:
What does it mean to have a relationship with a just environment?
What moral obligations or responsibilities do you have toward constructing just environments by resolving inequalities in the time of the climate crisis and Anthropocene?
What values& visions do you plan to live by? (or, what values will inform your relations with others and the environment?)
What do you envision a “good life” to be in the future? and
What role do you plan to play in engaging your family or community with environmental decisions as part of living in a just environment?
