An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing an increase in global temperature
What is climate change.
100
the country whose people historically live the longest
What is Japan
100
A governmental system which picks leaders based on ability and experience.
What is political meritocracy?
100
In this film, Kip Anderson explores the negative environmental impact of the animal agriculture industry in the United States.
What is Cowspiracy?
200
The concern for the needs and respect for legitimate expectations, of others and one's self
What is the definition of ethics?
200
Kant's conception of right and wrong which states that you do what is right because it is right, not because you get something in return.
What is utilitarianism?
200
the chance that a child born in the western world will live to 100
What is 50-50
200
The system of examinations in China to determine a candidate's worthiness to serve in power.
What is the civil service exam?
200
Jennifer Cheng and Dr. Charles Lee were imprisoned for practicing this Chinese spiritual tradition once it was discovered that there were more practitioners of this practice than there were members in the CCP.
What is Falun Gong/Falun Dafa?
300
List three of the ethical ideas brought up in the book.
What is birth, death, desire and the meaning of life, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, freedom from the bad, freedom and paternalism, rights and natural rights
300
The basis upon which you draw your thinking of what is right and wrong.
What is moral beliefs?
300
the life model that millennials are moving away from
What is the three staged life
300
Tests do a bad job of eliminating candidates who lack emotional intelligence, strong morals, and communication skills.
What are the flaws for meritocracy?
300
In this documentary, Chai Jing explains the correlation between death rates and elevated PM2.5 levels.
What is Under the Dome?
400
Rights comes from a government and natural rights are you born with
What is the difference between rights and natural rights
400
Shared-resource system where individual users act independently according to their own self-interest and behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
400
an asset that is difficult to physically define (ie. relationships)
What is an intangible asset
400
This is the model of meritocracy that Daniel Bell proposes for China to adopt.
What is the vertical model
400
According to experts in the documentary, What the Health?, consuming 50 grams of processed meat daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by this amount (in percent).
What is 18%.
500
The seven threat to ethics
What is the death of god, relativism, egoism, evolutionary theory, determinism and futility, unreasonable demands, false consciousness
500
The view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things.
What is biocentrism?
500
school, work, life
What is the tiers of a three stage life
500
These are the tyrannies that Daniel Bell addresses about democracy
What are the tyrannies of the majority, minority, voting community, and competitive individuals?
500
Kip Anderson attempted multiple times to get in contact with this environmental organization, but they refused to get back to him.