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| Vol. 17, No. 25 | March 26, 1998 |
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| Vol. 17, No. 25 | March 26, 1998 |
The 1998 David Norton Memorial Lecture will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 5, in Room 125 Clayton Hall.
The free, public program, entitled "Is the Environmental Crisis Over?," will be presented by Mark Sagoff, senior research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.
In his presentation, Sagoff will explain how many commentators blame our environmental woes on a single culprit-namely, the size, scale or growth of the global economy.
Other analysts argue that environmental problems are discrete and that solutions to some may exacerbate others. These analysts believe that the environmental crisis has gone the way of the Cold War, proposing that we no longer have one big problem but a collection of separate challenges, many of which require solutions that economic growth may support.
In his talk, Sagoff will examine the thesis that there is no general theory to explain the environmental crisis or to prescribe its cure, but that each problem must be addressed on its own terms.
Author of The Economy of the Earth, Sagoff was named a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment in 1991. From 1994-97, he served as president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. Sagoff has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Rochester, and he has taught at Princeton and Cornell universities and the universities of Pennsylvania and at Wisconsin.
