PH -255 Industry, Action + Connection, Afterword. GT 5.10--5.14 (thru Lessons from the Pandemic). McK thru William Cronon
Select your final report topics...
GT
- "People power" is also known as what? 364
- The tipping point for changing a society's behavior is what? 367
- Why does George Monbiot blame media for major responsibility in destroying life of earth? 369
- What alternative media does Monbiot favor? 371
- What new tactics have fossil fuel companies and their lackeys adopted? 372-3
- What are the markers of emergency mode, in responding to the climate crisis? 375f.
- What lessons should the pandemic have taught us? 382-3
McK
- Louise Gibbs' fight over Love Canal led to what? 609
- What question does Jonathan Schell say was never asked before our time? 624 Where does he say we must seek the meaning of extinction? 626
- What did Hannah Arendt say about "the common world"? 627
- What did Edmund Burke say about the "partnership" of the generations? 630
- For what did Amerian Indian men mock Englishmen? 656
PH
1. What will it take to produce a "corporate shift" that credibly addresses the climate crisis? 215
2. Revisiting this embarrassing question: how many of Michael Pollan's "foodlike substances" do you confess to enjoying? How many have you given up? How many will you give up? 217
3. Do you consciously factor the "true cost of junk food" into your eating choices? 218
4. How far are we from "the food system of the future"? 219
5. If the US political system continues not to acknowledge universal healthcare as a "fundamental human right," do you expect that to precipitate an eventual and radical change in voters' attitudes and choices? 221
6. Is it still a very tiny percentage of people who think "holistically about every facet of human well-being" or is that changing rapidly with the rising generation? Will or would that significantly impact our healthcare system, the pharmaceutical industry, and the perceived link between climate and health? 222
7. Do you know where your bank invests your money? Will the Good Money model "fundamentally change the system of banking"? 225
8. Has the social media environment permanently crippled the prospects of mutualism as a corrective for human aggression? 227
To create a “corporate shift” there would need to be a major profit incentive in green technologies. Big corporations don’t tend to do things that are in anyone’s best interests until there’s profit behind it.
ReplyDeleteIf the political system continues to deny universal healthcare as a human right, I think people will start to catch on, just not as quickly as one may think. It will take more and more younger generations to realize that they don’t care.
I embarrassingly don’t tend to think about the cost of junk food when I buy it, because when I’m hungry I typically don’t tend to think too deeply about it. There are, however, specific companies I stay away from.