From USC & Cal Poly Pomona
How different could life be due to environmental, scientific and societal changes? There's one dire scenario in which climate change causes California to become so arid in just a few decades that Los Angeles becomes uninhabitable, researchers say. And by the time current collegians are entering their 60s and seeing their children's lives, there may be more widespread famine, a lack of water and depletion of oil, gas and other natural resources. That helps explain why enrollment in environmental studies has doubled in the last decade and why the Trojan curriculum has been revamped for the popular topic. Students now get a broader exposure to courses ranging from biology to economics, with plenty of exposure, too, to policy-making, experts say. They can pick, for their bachelor's, different concentrations, say in sustainable energy and society, climate, earth and environment or psychology and environmental law and environmental economics. In Pomona, there's also a new broader major that tries to prepare students to better understand and deal with the complexities of science, engineering, technology and the environment.
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