Commons
8 Reasons Young American Don't Fight
Forget Shorter Showers...
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What will result when human responsibility does not match natural system boundaries or rhythms?
environmental problems
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Who thinks that societal institutions have "broken" the spirit of resistance of young Americans?
Bruce E. Levine
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When was the article published?
July/August 2009
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Elinor Ostrom drew together hundreds of studies of well-managed commons and proposed eight “design principles”, what are they called collectively
community-governance principles
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What is the name of the mental disorder that often "agrues with adults" as discussed by Levine?
Opposition's Deficient Disorder (ODD)
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Is taking shorter showers a personal change or social change according to Jenson.
Personal change
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What document turned from a tradition into public policy was discussed by Lee?
The U.S. Constitution
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Who said "The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey order..."?
John Taylor Gatto
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What are "the solutions" in "An Inconvenient Truth" as discussed by Jensen
Solutions presented: is personal consumption, such as changing the light bulb.
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What three things consist of a “system” that Harden refers to in his article, “Tragedy of the Commons”?
Ethics, Humans and Landscapes
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What are four of the eight reasons young Americans "Don't fight back" today?
1. Student-loan Debt 2. Schools that educate for compliance and not for democracy 3. Psychopathologizing and Medicating 4. "No Child left Behind" Act & "Race to the top" 5. Shaming young people about education 6. The normalization of surveillance 7. Television 8. Fundamentalist religion & fundamentalist consumerism
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What is the implications between personal vs. social change?
Jensen argued that to live simply is not a "political act" or "deeply revoluntionary" because it does not change consumer culture and the capital mindset.
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How would Lee solve environmental Problems? Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft?
Discussion
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How can gemeinschaft or gesellschaft be applied to this reading?
Discussion
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What type of ___schaft would Jensen agree with and why?
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