SSC118 DVD Review- The Age of Stupid

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SSC118 DVD Review- The Age of Stupid

1. We begin our glimpse into present from what future year?  ___________

2. Why is the use of ladders to access the glacier on Mont Blanc so profound?

3. Information shared in this video, states that all the ski resorts in Europe could close down in the next _______ years.

4. “One has to be very careful about attaching a _________________ to global warming.”

5. Every aspect of modern life is now literally made of  _____________. 

6. What is the “resource curse”?  You answer should include an explanation of the paradox regarding this “curse”. 

7. What “green” technology item was removed from the Whitehouse?

8. Why is a valuable gas product in Nigeria, burned off rather than collected and utilized?

9. Who made the following statement, “I am saddened that it is politically incorrect to acknowledge what everybody knows: That Iraq war is largely about oil”?

10. What is the covenant with our children? 

11. Energy is so cheap that we just _______ it _________. 

12. We were presented with the “tricky decision” of something being 800 times more energy wasteful and 10,000 times more expensive.  What is that, something? 

13. Lot’s of ideas have tried to take over the world- but what has been the one true winner?

14. If everyone on Earth consumed like the Canadians, Americans, and Australians, we would need another how many Earth’s?

15. 400 years of capitalism has resulted in what percent of the population possessing 40% of the world’s wealth? 

16. Layeta, the girls from Nigeria made an interesting comment.  She contrasted life in her country with that of an American.  She stated, “if you were living the life of an American, you would not even like to _______.

17. What was the comment regarding a “silver bullet”? 

18. Governments will only go as far as the _____________   ______________. 

19. People of the future may look back and exclaim that we knew how to profit not to _______________.

20.  Why do you think that the program included the information regarding Jeh, and his desire to begin a new airline company in India?  

Discussion question:  Today, most people follow a “linear” path and live a sedentary lifestyle.  What are the repercussions of this pattern for the self and for the environment, and how can we become more “cyclical” and active in a world that is overpopulated and becoming exceedingly less ecologically sustained?