Don Enss
Chapter 1:
1. What
explains “individuals’ belief about global warming more powerfully than any
other individual characteristic.”?
2. What
is it always easier to deny than to allow our worldview to be shattered?
3. What
is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore
conservatives?
4.
According to Klein, “without a doubt,”
what “is neoliberalism’s single most damaging legacy.”?
Chapter 2:
1. “Rather
than compete for the best, most effective supports for green energy, the
biggest emitters in the world are rushing to the WTO to do what?
2. “If
the climate movement had a birthday,” what would it be and why?
3. According
to Robyn Eckersley, what was “the pivotal moment that set the shape of the
relationship between the climate and trade regimes?
“Rather than
pretending that we can solve the climate crisis without rocking the economic
boat,” what does Anderson and Bows-Larkin argue should be done?
Chapter 2
ReplyDelete1.)"To knock down each others windmills"
2.) June 23, 1988. Because this is when James Hansen, then director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies testified before a packed congressional hearing that he had a "99 percent confidence" in "a real warming trend" linked to human activity and that it was time to stop waffling about the science. Leading to the historic World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto where the first emissions reductions were discussed followed by the UN'S IPCC first session
3.)The lack of substantial real world penalties against failing to meet the commitments made in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as agreed upon whereas the commitments made under the trade agreements had a dispute settlement system with real teeth that could land governments in trade courts and lead to harsh penalties.
4.)They argue the time has come to tell the truth and to liberate the science from the economics, finance, and astrology, stand by the conclusions however uncomfortable, and to have the audacity to think differently and conceive of alternative futures.