User:JunoBear/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Environmental impacts of fur farming
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article, while written well, could use a better lead to ease readers into the topic. It briefly diverts into other topics, which I might ask about tweaking in the talk section because it strays from the topic at hand. Additionally, some sections could be substantiated a bit more. Perhaps a new source would give more credibility to the article. The tone is neutral and balanced. The organization could use some work as some paragraphs seem to mash up lots of different information.
 * Sources
 * Fur farming
 * https://www.furfreealliance.com/environment-and-health/
 * https://faunalytics.org/fur-farming-bad-for-mink-bad-for-the-environment/
 * https://www.actasia.org/news/cop26-fur-farming-is-impacting-climate-change/
 * https://www.animal-ethics.org/fur-farms/
 * https://www.actasia.org/news/cop26-fur-farming-is-impacting-climate-change/
 * https://www.animal-ethics.org/fur-farms/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Ecological literacy
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has some good baseline information with sources about what ecoliteracy is, but I think it settles for just being a brief overview at best and could go into more detail about how to employ ecoliteracy on a global level. I also think it would it be beneficial to discuss ecoliteracy's battle against misinformation, especially regarding climate change. This seems to be a prevailing issue even today as many don't seem to care about how dire the situation is. It might be interesting to discuss political reluctance to address issues regarding the environment as well.
 * Sources
 * https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/12/4/WCAS-D-19-0141.1.xml
 * We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
 * https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_to_develop_ecoliteracy
 * https://www.ucsusa.org/climate/disinformation
 * https://theconversation.com/climate-change-misinformation-fools-too-many-people-but-there-are-ways-to-combat-it-170658
 * https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1047583610/once-again-the-u-s-has-failed-to-take-sweeping-climate-action-heres-why
 * https://theconversation.com/climate-change-misinformation-fools-too-many-people-but-there-are-ways-to-combat-it-170658
 * https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1047583610/once-again-the-u-s-has-failed-to-take-sweeping-climate-action-heres-why

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Environmentalism in music
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is fairly established and well-researched, but I could add a few recent, famous examples about environmentalism in music. Music as as a form of activism is very interesting to me.
 * Sources
 * Billie Eilish's "All The Good Girls Go To Hell"
 * Declan McKenna's "Rapture"
 * Bo Burnham's "All Eyes On Me"
 * King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Infest The Rats' Nest
 * Bo Burnham's "All Eyes On Me"
 * King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Infest The Rats' Nest

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Environmentally friendly (Greenwashing)
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article discusses the marketing tactic of slapping "environmentally friendly" on bottles and such in order to sell more products. The article mostly just explains the concept briefly but doesn't provide any examples of it and fails to discuss faux activism, the impacts of this marketing tactic, and how to combat it. I also think the title of the article should include "Marketing Tactic" in parenthesis because without it it seems like the article is all about being environmentally conscious when it is actually about marketing in a climate-conscious society.
 * Sources
 * Slacktivism
 * https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-marketing-strategy-brand-activism-jacinta-austin
 * https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/six-companies-accused-greenwashing/
 * https://www.ecowatch.com/greenwashing-guide-2655331542.html
 * https://verive.eu/en/articles/what-is-greenwashing-en
 * https://www.ecowatch.com/greenwashing-guide-2655331542.html
 * https://verive.eu/en/articles/what-is-greenwashing-en

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