Have a nice weekend.
Don
-Thanks, Don! We'll omit the Flannery quizzes and just have Ecotopia questions. You can all post your 1st report installments any time before midnight, but please be prepared to say a few words about your topic in class. -jpo
1.
What Ecotopian research was awarded a Nobel Prize?
2. What academic disciplines are more popular in Ecotopia?
3. Which of the arts seems most important to Ecotopians?
4. What is the Ecotopian attitude towards death?
5. Towards what 'isms does Weston see Ecotopia heading?
6. What are Ecotopian students required to do in alternate years?
7. What American social prohibition do the Ecotopians have a propensity to violate?
8. Callenbach thought his book was the first attempt to portray what?
9. Of what did Callenbach say, in his Epistle, he had become less confident?
2. What academic disciplines are more popular in Ecotopia?
3. Which of the arts seems most important to Ecotopians?
4. What is the Ecotopian attitude towards death?
5. Towards what 'isms does Weston see Ecotopia heading?
6. What are Ecotopian students required to do in alternate years?
7. What American social prohibition do the Ecotopians have a propensity to violate?
8. Callenbach thought his book was the first attempt to portray what?
9. Of what did Callenbach say, in his Epistle, he had become less confident?
1. What do Survivalist Party members think of the Progressive Party?
2.
How did the Ecotopians adapt highway use during the construction of the
national train system?
3.
What new taxes were legislated to compensate for Ecotopia's shrunken tax base
when wealthy families fled?
4.
What do Ecotopian drugstores sell?
5.
What hold-overs from pre-Independence days continue in the black neighborhoods
of Ecotopia?
6.
What power sources do Ecotopians prefer, and delight in?
7.
What do Ecotopians like to watch on TV?
8.
What do Ecotopian schoolchildren spend at least two hours a day doing?
9.
What do Ecotopians extrude?
1. What were the profoundest implications of Ecotopia's 20-hour work week?
2. How did Ecotopia respond to mass unemployment?
3. Ecotopians do not feel separate from what?
4. Economic arguments against clear-cutting are an Ecotopian rationale for attitudes that can almost be called what?
5. An ideal population for an urban constellation in Ecotopia was felt to be what?
6. Ecotopian couples are generally monogamous, except when?
7. Americans and their technology are blamed by Ecotopians for what tragic and irreversible process?
8. The war games are an adaptation of what hypotheses to "real life"?
9. How are children's lives different in Ecotopia?
10. Why is the bicycle beautiful, according to "doctor Jake"?
1. Name a couple of "glimpses" of 60s-era Berkeley the Foreword author finds in Ecotopia.
2. Ecotopia was born out of Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's attempt to do what?
3. Political organization in Ecotopia is led by who?
4. Ecotopia poses a challenge to what underlying national philosophy of America?
5. What "standard garb" in New York is not permitted in Ecotopia?
6. What occupies the space formerly taken by converted auto lanes in Ecotopia?
7. Where do most Ecotopians live?
8. What "zones" cover all densely settled areas in Ecotopia?
9. Why would American sports fans be miserable in Ecotopia? [HINT: No "Go Seahawks/Mariners"!]
10. What term is not used in polite conversation in Ecotopia?
1. It's been proposed that carbon-capture devices installed on ships could do what?
2. What unexpected development (besides a breakthrough in our understanding of how life might have begun) did the 1953 Miller/Urey experiment lead to?
3. What's the inherent problem with carbon capture and storage in conjunction with power plants?
4. What's Flannery's view of people's reluctance to support refrigeration cubes and wind farms in the Antarctic?
5. What has to happen to sustain an even chance of keeping warming to within 2 degrees centigrade?
6. What's potentially revolutionary about China's pledge to increase its clean energy target?
7. What does India plan to build?
8. What has to happen over the next few decades to some of today's largest corporations including Exxon and Mobil?
9. What delights Flannery when he looks back over the past decade?
10. What does Flannery want young people to know?
1. What simple urban adaptation could "more than offset" current warming?
2. What particles will SPICE deliver, rather than sulphur?
3. What fundamental problem do most sunlight-reducing proposals fail to deal with?
4. What did the IAGP researchers admit about geoengineering?
5. What did the February 2015 major review "point out up front"?
6. What has Flannery watched over the years in astonishment?
7. What's another name for congealed atmospheric CO2?
8. What may provide "spectacular solutions to the climate crisis"?
Thanks Don!!
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