Quizes Flashcards
Here are some quizzes that we took in ESSP 160.
Common Sense Ideas That Cars Represent in US Culture?
Autonomy, mobility, power, personal privacy, stress relief, freedom, fun, sexiness, convenience, comfort, relationship with technology
Invisible Technologies
“the set of infrastructure, tools and tech that have become indistinguishable from your daily life.”
(https://senion.com/insights/invisible-technology-best-technology/)
How/Why did the US gov’t promote “car culture?”
Allowed for Nuclear Weapons/Troops to be moved
Encouraged whites to move out of cities
Allowed for companies to transport goods faster
How did Europeans deal with their water sanitation problem
Alcohol
How did Asians deal with their water sanitation problem
Boiling water and making tea
Five Characteristics of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
God Created the world, ordered it, watches over it
God wants people to be good, nice to each other
Central life is to be happy, feel good
God doesn’t have to be in one’s life, except if there is a problem
Good people go to Heaven when they die
Csikszentmihalyi’s idea of “flow”
Intense concentration on the task
deep sense of involvement, merging action and awareness,
sense of control over actions
enjoyment/interest in activity
a distorted sense of time
Sustainability Definition
The capacity to endure
Sustainable Development Definition
development that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.’ (Brundtland Report 1987, Our Common Future)
The ‘Three E’s’
Ecology/environment
Economy/Employment
Equity/Equality
(Fourth E - Education)
Three Parts of the Biosphere
Atmosphere (air)
Hydrosphere (water)
Lithosphere (earth)
Noosphere
biosphere of humanity
When did the Anthropocene Start?
Neolithic revolution - 10,000 BCE
180 CE - height of Roman Empire
Start of industrial revolution - 1780 CE
Detonation of first nuke - 16 July, 1945
Montreal Protocol
Countries around the world decided to phase out CFCs (Cholrofluorocarbons) by 1996 because of damages to ozone layer
Definition of Prevention
Stopping something from happening
