KSR -p.296 (ch.60). Presentations continue... ALSO,
I'm thinking of offering an alternative to the exam. We'd still do the exam on the 29th (if we want to) but you'd also have the option of replacing it with either (1) your posted review of Ministry for the Future and response to KSR's view from 2071, or (2) a posted essay on what you consider the two or three best ideas in MF and Regeneration, or (3) a posted essay on the Sunrise Movement and whether you think the rising generation will fully engage the climate crisis. What do you think?
- Should California be a separate nation? 184 Or the Pacific Northwest? (See Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach...)
- Are bankers "Non-democratic, answerable to no one"? 189
- How many watts do you think you use, if the average American uses 12,000? 196
- Have you spent time in any truly walkable cities, where walking was "a form of entertainment"? 198
- Is self-reliance "always a delusion"?
- COMMENT?: "Only when things fall apart do you realize it can happen to you." 206
- How do you imagine the world might be different if we'd adopted Keynes's suggestion about bancors in 1944? 209
- Do bankers and others in the private sector regard "saving the world [as] outside their purview"? 213
- Was Marx or Hegel right about practice and theory? 216
- Should we stop, or at least sharply curtail, airflight and other fossil-burning transport? 228 Would that be a likely result of a Crash Day?
- Are "open source instruments that mimic the functions of all the big social media sites" (like Mastodon, for example) going to supplant Twitter and Facebook et al? 241
- COMMENT?: "Simply talking was the strongest social media of all..." 247
- Would the six sectors and eleven policies mentioned on 251 suffice to end the climate crisis? Will enough young people change "all their behaviors" in time? 252
- Do we need a new (old) religion? 255
- Are most economists "moral and practical idiots" trying to calculate "the monetary value of human civilization"? 264 Would $50 billion to prevent catastrophic sea-level rise be a "bargain"? 265
Have you spent time in any truly walkable cities, where walking was "a form of entertainment"? 198
ReplyDeleteNo, the closest thing to a "walkable city" I've experienced was the street next to my dorm at the UTK campus. The street had restaurants, Walgreens, housing, and a grocery store. I've always wanted to visit old cities in Europe that still have a walkable infrastructure with local businesses and a sense of community because it's something I have never truly experienced. I imagine New York City is a place where walking is "a form of entertainment," however, I don't think the entertainment is wholesome, rather it's mainly people watching and being exposed to all types of people at different stages of life and personal development. Also, I think NYC is more individualistic rather than communal, so there's a lack of comfort in the community.
Have you spent time in any truly walkable cities, where walking was "a form of entertainment"? 198
ReplyDeleteNo I have not really spent time in a 'walkable city'. The closest thing I can think of to compare to a 'walkable city' would be the MTSU campus. On campus it is entertaining to walk around instead of driving or riding something. The campus was designed to be walked, and it is fun to see people living, run into a friend, see events going on. It is a very positive and welcoming, when it is not raining of course.
COMMENT?: "Only when things fall apart do you realize it can happen to you." 206
ReplyDeleteI agree with this whole heartedly. People think they are invincible and impenetrable until something hurts or affects them. It is like when WB said "you do not know the loss of something until you lose or damage it". This is the same sense. We as humans kind of live in a world of ignorance on a lot of things, and we remain ignorant on how those things make us act and feel until they happen to us.
How many watts do you think you use, if the average American uses 12,000? 196
ReplyDeleteI would say that I use a similar amount of Watts, but probably a little less. I normally keep all of my over head lights off, I do not use my computer or TV much, but I do use my phone a lot. I think all in all, when I consider the things I am conscious about and the things I unconsciously use watts for, they would even out to around the average.