1. What has cut off the past and orphaned critical opinion in the present?
2. What stopped the President from seizing the moment of financial crisis to create a transitional climate opportunity?
3. How can natural gas serve as an effective short-term transition fuel?
4. How are the Canadian tar sands not like science fiction?
5. What do intelligent investors know about the results and commitments of U.N. climate summits?
6. What language has become foreign to a great many of us?
DQ
- What happened to Barack Obama's "new energy economy"?
- Would it have been as easy as Klein suggests to create a "robust coalition of trade unions, immigrants, students, environmentalists and everyone else" in 2009? 121
- Would you park (or sell) your car if you could commute to school and work via high-speed rail?
- Is there anything "wrong with telling large corporations how to run their businesses"? 125
- Is it consistent or correct to blame the right for "making climate about economics" and then emulate them? 125
- "Trade unions can be counted on to fiercely protect jobs, however dirty, if these are the only jobs on offer." 126 Should we hold unions and industry to the same standard of public interest?
- Do you agree that we need to fix existing transportation infrastructure but don't need more highways?
- If the market will not create climate jobs supporting renewables on the scale required, what's your reply to "the market has spoken and that's that"?
- Can Germany's and Denmark's "commons" model of public utility work here? 130-1
- How do we get from NIMBY to POOL (and get over WIIFM)? 132
- Is "agroecology" the solution? 134
- Was the Green Revolution not all it's been cracked up to be? 135
- Will we learn from Germany's experience with coal, and impose strict rules against its extraction and burning? 136, 138
- Is James Hansen an alarmist, or would it really be "game over" if we tapped the tar sands? 140
- Do you support nuclear energy as a transition source, or should we drop it entirely as too risky and too slow to bring online? 137
- Is a philosophy of "no" enough, to inspire and sustain a new way of living lightly on the planet? 141
- Is the market more likely to innovate new ways to get hard-to-reach fossil fuels than with green alternatives? 142
- Is Bill McKibben an alarmist? 148
- Yours please
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President's Barrock Obama's new energy economy failed because of the ideoligy that we are not suppose to force private sector coorporations into making moves. We should instead nudge them in the right direction. This has proved to be inneffective with the current power structure.
ReplyDeleteIf I could get to work by a high speed rail I would defenetly park my car. This allows for much more time for reading, studying, and communicating with fellow people of the world. This is benificial considering how much pollution can be reduced.
ReplyDelete"Is there anything 'wrong with telling large corporations how to run their businesses'? "
ReplyDeleteYes and no. Obviously, the freedom to deviate from the norm is what brings about positive change and innovation; however, if the actions of any given large corporation are damaging to the welfare of the surrounding population (or the world), the government has a right and an obligation to correct the corporation.
While I do agree that businesses should be allowed to manage themselves in order innovate and be successful, it shouldn't be done at the expense of the people and act adversely towards the environment. With that in mind, the government should be able to enact any regulations (with justification) that with benefit the citizens and the place in which they live.
DeleteWhile I do agree that businesses should be allowed to manage themselves in order innovate and be successful, it shouldn't be done at the expense of the people and act adversely towards the environment. With that in mind, the government should be able to enact any regulations (with justification) that with benefit the citizens and the place in which they live.
Delete"Is a philosophy of "no" enough, to inspire and sustain a new way of living lightly on the planet? 141"
ReplyDeleteWhen we establish a sense of standing our ground and not budging away from our beliefs, I believe it can either create power over others or a war when dealing with another individual who will stand their ground in the same sense as you. I believe it depends on how much you believe in your own views and your position of power on whether or not people will back you up in your viewpoints.
Alternate Quiz Questions for Ch. 4
ReplyDelete1. According to Sam Gindin, the potential work to be do in regard to changing the way we live our lives is what?
2. What would happen if industrial policy were brought in line with climate science in regards to the job market?
3. In Theory, what can gasoline serve as in the time it takes for people to fully switch to energy sources that produce zero carbon emissions?
4. According to Raj Patel, what is the problem that still remains even with the Green Revolution and why is this a problem despite the intensity of the revolution?
5. In a report by the German National Center for Aerospace, Energy and Transport Research, it was demonstrated that what percentage of the electricity in the EU would be contributed to renewable sources by 2030?
6. What does Klein consider to be the "strongest argument for forceful regulation" due to the misconception of the status quo being "business-as-usual"?
7. When a project becomes a "stranded asset" what has happened to these investments?
8. What does Klein consider to be the "core problem" which has both "blocked climate action and accelerated emissions"?
Alternate Quiz Questions for Ch. 4
ReplyDelete1. According to Sam Gindin, the potential work to be do in regard to changing the way we live our lives is what?
2. What would happen if industrial policy were brought in line with climate science in regards to the job market?
3. In Theory, what can gasoline serve as in the time it takes for people to fully switch to energy sources that produce zero carbon emissions?
4. According to Raj Patel, what is the problem that still remains even with the Green Revolution and why is this a problem despite the intensity of the revolution?
5. In a report by the German National Center for Aerospace, Energy and Transport Research, it was demonstrated that what percentage of the electricity in the EU would be contributed to renewable sources by 2030?
6. What does Klein consider to be the "strongest argument for forceful regulation" due to the misconception of the status quo being "business-as-usual"?
7. When a project becomes a "stranded asset" what has happened to these investments?
8. What does Klein consider to be the "core problem" which has both "blocked climate action and accelerated emissions"?
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.fao.org/3/a-az422e.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis link is for a book about "SEIZING THE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR BETTER GROWTH AND A BETTER CLIMATE". This book is about the new climate economy: The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and its flagship project The New Climate Economy, were set up to help governments, businesses and society make better informed decisions on how to achieve economic prosperity and development while also addressing climate change. The New Climate Economy was commissioned in 2013 by the governments of seven countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The Commission has operated as an independent body and, while benefiting from the support of the seven governments, has been given full freedom to reach its own conclusions.