World in Double JEOPARDY!!
Roughly 50% of parents and teachers wish this did not exist.
What is social media?
At the end of the novel, this character says the following to Sethe, when she laments the loss of Beloved as her "best thing": "You your best thing, Sethe. You are."
Who is Paul D.?
Julia Butterfly Hill sat in this species of tree to prevent it from being cut down by Pacific Coast Lumber. Give the species and the tree's name.
What is Luna, the redwood (or Pacific Coast Redwood). Sequoia is probably close enough.
The goal of inclusive growth was included in the new development agenda adopted by the members states of this organization.
What is the United Nations?
The declaration of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development states:
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all taking into account different levels of national development and capacities.
The full name of the sociologist who debated on the stage of Monroe - [MINUS] the full name of the economist debating on the opposing side.
What is -2?
Maggie Abraham (0) - Costas Alexandrakis (-2) = -2
This blogger and political theorist argued that America should be restructured more like a corporation, with a CEO-style executive replacing traditional democratic governance.
Who is Curtis Yarvin?
According to Lynn White Jr the shift in the fundamental Western understanding of our relationship to the world was ushered in by this 17th century writer.
Who is Francis Bacon?
In "The Land Ethic," Leopold rejects this role because it he finds it "always self-defeating," distancing us from the very ecosystems we are a part of.
What is the conqueror role?
Evidence that Dr. Alexandrakis offered us to support his claim that economic growth does not inevitably cause pollution growth?
That as rich countries have continued to growth over the past 40 years, emissions of many pollutants like Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide and Carbon Dioxide has gone down, not up.
When thinking about growth, it is necessary to think about it on three different levels. The first two of these levels (starting from the smallest) - [MINUS] the final level (the largest).
What is 1?
Micro (0) + Meso (1) - Macro (0) = 1
The term used by Toni Morrison in Beloved to describe what happens after trauma, the act not just of remembering but actively reexperiencing, assembling and dwelling on forgotten or repressed memories.
What is rememory?
This character almost literally embodies excess and greed in the film. He is Elide’s father and Gianni’s father-in-law.
Who is Romolo (Catenacci)?
Luiciana, Antonio, and Nikola discover Gianni has become a wealthy man who lives in a spectacular villa with a pool when they return this object to him.
What is Wallet?
According to Professor Alexandrakis, instead of degrowing, this would be a more appropriate way to addressing environmental problems.
What is taxing economic activities according to how much they pollute or reducing the availability of the common resource (clean air, water, etc.) for everyone else.
Location of Aldo Leopold's "shack and farm" (the state) - [MINUS] The thinker who argues that it is wrong to assume that freedom is a right given at birth.
What is 1?
Wisconsin (2) - Timothy Snyder (1) = 1
This key concept explains why countries like China may outperform democracies like India in development, emphasizing administrative effectiveness over regime type.
What is state capacity?
[State capacity is a government's ability to effectively implement policies, enforce laws, collect taxes, and provide public services across its territory.]
After learning he has cancer, Watanabe next appears in a drinking establishment, where he meets a second-rate writer and tells him about his illness. The writer offers to take him out on the town acting as this familiar figure in literature.
Who is Mephistopheles?
This Center has historically monitored groups that, in effect, turn subjects into objects, that is, far right extremist, white supremacist and other hate groups in the USA. They were recently indicted by the current Supreme Court on fraud charges for "mishandling funds" allocated for these activities, one of which is to run the podcast that Dean Robinson assigned for her second lecture.
What is The the Southern Poverty Law Center (tracking and fighting hate groups, in part, through exposure).
Three possible actions, according to Bengi Akbulu (and Professor Abraham), to create a broader conception of work so that “invisibilized" labor and production is recognized, rewarded and supported.
a. Implementing care income
b. Expanding rights and entitlements of essential workers
c. Public investment into social and ecological reproduction
The article that proposes a legal mechanism in which a representative acts on behalf of natural objects like a river or a tree - [MINUS] What John Dewey defined as "cumulative movement towards a later action."
What is 3?
"Should Trees Have Standing" (3) - Growth (0) = 3
Three ways in which white supremacy groups grow extremism.
What is:
1. Institutional infiltration
2. Digital radicalization/through media and information ecosystems
3. Conspiracy and paranoia
4. Stuctural Gaps
5. Fostering a false sense of belonging through shared hatred of perceived "out-groups"
(Multiple answers can be correct.)
This fortune-teller, revisited by Antonio in desperation, represents the tension between rational action and the human need for hope in uncertain times.
Who is La Santona?
This was the brand of car that Nikola won on the gameshow, Double or Nothing.
What is F.i.a.t?
According to Timothy Snyder, we need to cultivate these 5 forms of freedom to attain true freedom, the highest goal which makes all other positives in our lives possible.
What is Sovereignty, Unpredictability, Mobility, Facticity and Solidarity?
The term Dr. Alexandrakis' uses for a concern about the environment because of the indirect harm it does to humans, especially future generations - [MINUS] The Ancient Greek philosopher (who doubles as a character) arguing that excessive freedom in democracy leads to chaos and eventually tyranny.
What is -1?
"Anthropocentric environmentalism" (1) - Socrates (2) = -1
(If Plato (0) is used rather than Socrates then the answer is 1
1 - 0 = 1