Aldo Leopold invited us to think like a mountain. J. Baird Callicott went even further to ask us to think like a planet. Now Steven Vogel surprisingly proposes that we should think like a mall. This course offers students to consider this surprising invitation in the name of environmental philosophy by first examining in the first half of the semester some earlier essays that would prepare us to think like a mall, if possible. The change from an ecocentric view to some kind of anthropocentric view seems to follow from Vogel’s two claims: first, there is no such thing as nature as it is; everything around us is artefactual; there are only artifacts around us and produced by us. Second, he says “environmental problems are actually political problems”. This seems to follow from the first claim. The following is what we will try to do in this course: Is Vogel’s first claim plausible? If it is, does it really follow that what we have is not exclusively an ethical problem but also (or perhaps even at a greater degree) a political problem.