Quiz Sep20

Don and Jilli have us covered for today's quiz, I'll just add this so we can get on with our video production. (Today, take up to 8 bases on the quiz if you correctly answer their questions.)

1. With what Jane Austen-inspired metaphor does Klein describe the work of the Chicheley Hall retreat?

2. What kind of wave might ensue, if we ever stopped blocking the sun?

3. Why is Frankenstein a terribly poor metaphor for geoengineering?

4. What kind of stories do we need, according to Klein, instead of visions of a space-faring human future?

DQ

• Is ""if we can put a man on the moon" boosterism misplaced, when discussing geoengineering? 280
• How should we reconceive Earth Day, and reclaim it from those who misconceive the real vulnerability at issue? 285
• Is the Spaceship Earth metaphor fundamentally misconceived? 
• Is Stewart Brand a sellout or a visionary? 288
• Should we go to Mars? (Or just send Branson et al?)
• Can an acceptance that this Earth is for now our only home sufficiently motivate responsible environmentalism? Or must we renounce the "astronaut's eye view" and the vision of a human future in space as irrelevant and possibly harmful? (Before you answer conclusively, I recommend reading A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin. We shouldn't be so eager to abandon the intrepid mindset that powered those audacious moonshots, a demonstration of resolve and perseverance that's been lacking in the face of climate change.)
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