Planting an Idea by Jerry Apps, Natasha Kassulke
Planting an Idea: Critical and Creative Thinking About Environmental Issues by Jerry Apps, Natasha Kassulke
English | 2023 | Education & Reference | 1.4 MB
A first-of-its-kind handbook, allowing the reader to combine the processes of critical and creative thinking with a detailed discussion of the environmental challenges facing our planet
Planting an Idea is part guidebook for better critical and creative thinking and part overview of the environmental challenges that face our planet today. It is designed
to help readers young and old examine and develop opinions on a variety of environmental issues based on substance, creativity, and fact.
Apps and Kassulke take the reader through an examination of critical and creative thinking, providing a foundation for these skills—a foundation that can be used in all matter of public discourse. They then provide a brief history of the environmental movement, followed by a deep exploration of various environmental issues, ranging from climate change to land use to clean air and water. In each section, Apps and Kassulke show how the processes of critical and creative thinking can be used to evaluate the issues and define potential actions and solutions.
