At the end of each module, you are challenged to demonstrate your integrated kno

At the end of each module, you are challenged to demonstrate your integrated knowledge of the week’s material by putting course resources and discussion into thoughtful conversation with your own life and the life of the world. Remember that your goals are to demonstrate that you understand and are applying course material (whose ideas you CITE parenthetically) to your own life and the world. Guidelines: Your entry should be 400-600 words. Anything less than a full, double-spaced page is probably not sufficient. I do NOT expect you to treat this reflection as an essay with a thesis statement that you defend throughout the essay. I DO expect that your reflection will consist of well-written, well-organized paragraphs with topic sentences and unifying themes. I DO expect that you will use this opportunity to dig into the ideas that have most intrigued you, bothered you, excited you, and baffled you, and to bring those ideas into conscious dialogue with your own life today and your hopes and plans for yourself and our world. I DO expect that you will use and cite course material. I DO expect that you will illustrate your points with specific examples. I will offer a few particular questions or ideas that may be helpful for you to consider in this journal assignment. You are not restricted to those themes; they are there to help you get started. Week 5: In what ways does Francis’s theological environmentalism help us have this conversation in contemporary, pluralistic society? In what ways might people have trouble with his message? (Interestingly, secular and religious environmentalists alike largely embraced this encyclical. The resistance to it came from within some Catholic groups.) What environmental issue(s) that he names are of greatest concern for you? How effectively can integral ecology help us think about/act on environmental concerns? What do you personally think about the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world? Do you have an anthropocentric view? Ecocentric? Somewhere in between? Who is affected most? Do you agree with Francis’s connection of environmental concerns with poverty? What does Wallace’s chapter on food get you thinking about? Are there other concerns for which you can also think about the way the systems that are in place strongly affect and shape our ethical choices regarding the environment?