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Note: This post represents a live-blogging experiment in class. I put up the prompt during class and students worked in teams of 2 to come up with an argument, for which they got online and IRL feedback from me and other students, before posting their final collaborative essays.<\/p>\n

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Last class we ended by discussing Nader’s and Carson’s insights together.\u00a0 We came up with the idea that sometimes culture, government, and industry are in a causality loop and that infrastructure, perhaps counterintuitively, cannot be effectively planned, but can only respond to problems and disasters–\u201creal life testing” in a sense. But, this idea is not really going to work for the Bhopal disaster. Think about how to create a new insight that has explanatory meaning for Bhopal.<\/p>\n

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How does the Bhopal disaster differ from the environmental and public health disasters described by Ralph Nader and Rachel Carson? In your answer, have a clear argument and address how infrastructure and government play a role. The key here is to come up with a new insight, being mindful of what we\u2019ve already gone over during last class. It may help to begin with clearly, concisely defining and characterizing each specific \u201cdisaster\u201d Nader and Carson brought to light, and then move on to discussing Bhopal. Try to keep it to no more than 3 paragraphs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Work in groups of 2 and post a first comment that clearly states your argument in no more than 1 to 2 sentences. If your\u00a0 argument is replicated by someone else\u2019s group, both groups will have to change their arguments, to make it less obvious and more original. In order to share your arguments and posts, I will approve the comments in real time. Once your argument is approved verbally or online by me, you will do a finalized comment with your whole essay. The deadline on the syllabus still applies. Be sure that your single comment has both of your wordpress handles on it so I know who worked on which entry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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