- Is Speth's assessment that "all we have to do to destroy the planet's climate and biota" is keep on doing what we're doing now too bleak? (x)
- What sort of "civic unreasonableness" do you think is now appropriate or necessary? (xiii)
- Is the Golden Rule + Aldo Leopold all the environmental ethic we need? (xvi)
- Is Martin Rees too pessimistic? (5-6)
- What's wrong with "maiinstream environmentalism"? (9)
- Are education and poverty (etc.) environmental issues? ((13)
- Are we closer to a "tipping point" with respect to public opinion regarding climate? (26)
- How can a "concerted international response" be achieved? (28)
- Why is the loss of biodiversity bad in itself, apart from disruptions to the ecosystem of which human civilization is a part? (36)
- If humans are "a new force of nature," does that fact contain a silver lining? (39)
- Are you a "solutionist"? Or what? (42)
- Do you participate in the "secular religion" (47) of rapid, never-ending economic growth?
- Why don't Americans demand "shorter workweeks, longer vacations" etc.? (48)
- What would be an "appropriate price" for a sustainable environment, in market terms? (52-3)
- How do we create sighted markets (instead of the "blind" ones operant today)? (54)
- (Your suggestions...)
And some factual questions:
- What 1980 report was prescient? (18)
- What was the predominant nature of the environmental challenges that spurred the first Earth Day?
- CO2 is at its highest level since how long ago? (21)
- Sea level rises attributable to the melting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets can be traced to at least what year? (22)
- What are some of the leading health problems associated with climate change? (23)
- 20% of the world has contributed to how much of the world's present emissions? (28)
- [Leaving the rest of ch1 to you guys]
- What's our "secular religion"? (47)
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