Environmental Ethics: Quiz Nov 7

Monday, November 5, 2018

Quiz Nov 7

RFV -81. Under construction...

1. Why doesn't Perry remember warm January days in Vermont? How young is he?

2. What do revolutionaries always do?

3. Why does Sylvia say Vermont should ("maybe") have a democracy?

4. How many countries are smaller than Vermont?

5. Name a fun fact about Luxembourg.

~~6. Is there really a falcon in Malta?~~

6. What was Trance's sport, and her unprecedented feat? Why is the sport so "tough"?

7. What quote adorned independent Vermont's flag?

8. What "took care of" Trance's 20s? What does she say about the "point" of her service?

9. How do bare trees in autumn make Vern feel?

10. Why did the return of moose please Vern enormously?

Discussion Questions

Add yours
Are you inclined to think of warm January days as an omen, something to enjoy, or both?
Are eco-activists making optimal use of the available bandwidth (radio, Internet, other media) to get their message out?
Are state secessionists idiots? 45
In light of the latest elections, what's your view of democracy? Is it working? Is it really even happening?
Does the U.S. need a better anthem?
Is the U.S. too big? Is there a case to be made for disbanding the union?
Would you want to live in the free and independent state of Tennessee? Middle Tennessee? Nashville? Rutherford County? Liechtenstein? Ecotopia?

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UnknownNovember 6, 2018 at 11:17 PM
1. Why is everyone looking for something to rally around? (44) Because people are freaked out about Trump.

2. What were Vern, Syl and Perry trying to do that could possibly cause people to emigrate to Liechtenstein? (53) Trying to convince people to go for a free Vermont

3. What caused Sylvia to be so furious at Vern? (58) He was a fugitive and told his mother where he lived or where to find him.

4. How old is Vern’s mother? (59) 96 years old.

5. What is the name of the German biathlete? (61) Uschi Disl

6. What was so significant of Trance’s sport career? (62) This was her first Olympics at the age of 26 – a late bloomer.

7. How did Trance fair at the Olympics? (63) She won gold by an inch or two.

8. What American president was Trance referred as? (65) Calvin Coolidge

9. What was Trance’s father and mother like? (65) He was a drunk who left. Her mother is a saint.

10. What did the New York Attorney General say when threatening Ethan Allen? (69) “Might often prevails over right”.

11. The Green Mountain boys were resolute in saying what regarding the protection of their land? (70)“by force, as law and justice were denied them”.

12. What did Trance do in the military? (74) Sharpshooter (sniper). The first girl.
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2018 at 12:27 AM
Max McConnell Alternte Quiz Questions
1. Why does Perry say he likes soul music? Pg 41 “It’s complete.”
2. What is one of Perry’s favorite songs? Pg 43 ‘Say it Loud- I’m Black and Proud’
3. Perry suggests they have what sort of contest on the air? Pg 47 An anthem contest.
4. What country has the highest average annual income? Pg 52 Luxembourg at $102,000 average annually
5. What country has an army that consists of 80 archers? Pg 53 San Marino
6. What is Perry’s first nomination for the new national anthem contest? Pg 55 Miss Mavis Staples’ ‘ I have Learned to Do Without You’
7. Who did Trance compete against for the Olympian medal? Pg 61Uschi Disl
8. What is Trance’s real name? Pg 62 Ellen Harper
9. What did Trance do in the Afghanistan? Pg 74-75 Sharpshooter/ poster girl
10. What does Vern connect to Walmart? Pg 79 Winter vanishing
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mountainman_tanNovember 7, 2018 at 2:38 PM
Living in Tennessee, especially within a valley, can have troubling pollution effect or really weird weather like usual. January does not really get cold until closer to February or well have a cold winter throughout the season. So January could progress into warmer winter or progressively become colder in the valley.
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2018 at 2:57 PM
“Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain/ oh pay off your high majesties, for easing off your pain/ America, America, please put a price on me/ and crown my charts with “past due” marks/ money, money, money”
—Kari
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First things first--a proper education

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.” ― Wendell Berry

The college project

“The American college may be considered a continuation, at the human level, of the self-education process of the earth itself: universe education, earth education, and human education are stages of development in a single unbroken process...The entire college project can be seen as that of enabling the student to understand the immense story of the universe and the role of the student in creating the next phase of the story.” --Thomas Berry, “The American College in the Ecological Age,” in The Dream of the Earth

“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
― Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.”
― Martin Keogh, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

“When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.”
― John May, The Greenpeace Story

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
― T.S. Eliot

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the
single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this
world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the
environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”
― Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.”
― Ivan Illich

	Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) http://michaelpollan.com/
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