terms Flashcards
boling frogs
climate change is sometimes compared to that of a frog in a slowly boiling pot of water, meaning that change will happen too gradually for us to appreciate the likelihood of catastrophe and act before it is too late.
insectionality
Kimberele crenshaw
Identities are comprised of many different things, not just one thing
Different dimensions to identity
fire alarm model
Regulator sits back and waits for complaints
Easier b/c why fix something that doesn’t need fixing
police patrol model
Like health and safety inspections
More expensive
Might end up over-patroling an area and missing things in other areas
j curb
Politicians will often delay the enactment of certain policies because the rewards will not come in their political livelihood // related to valley of death
valley of death
the period in the life of a startup in which it has begun operations but has not yet generated revenue
cassandra/whistleblower
a person in a state where a decision is being made and does not agree with it, and warns the decision makers that it is a bad idea, one, two or as many times as needed, but it gets ignored.
tragedy of commons
the idea that when common pool resources exist, people will be too comfortable with overusing them,and but not realize they are overusing it, until everyone over uses it and it basically fucks it up and depletes the resource
free rider problem
he burden on a shared resource that is created by its use or overuse by people who aren’t paying their fair share for it or aren’t paying anything at all.
march of folly
Pursuit by government policies contrary to their own interests
making really bad choices, even when there were obviously better things to do. Tuchman talks about leaders doing just that in the past, and how those not-so-smart decisions caused big problems for their countries.
it’s like someone trying to fix a problem with a solution that’s not working and, instead of changing their approach, they just keep doing the same thing, making things worse.
example of folly
The U.S. got involved in the conflict thinking it could prevent the spread of communism. However, as the war went on, it became clear that the strategy wasn’t working well, and the cost in terms of lives and resources was incredibly high. Despite the growing realization that the war was a “folly” – a foolish and counterproductive action – leaders kept making decisions that prolonged the conflict.
swiss cheese model
no policy is perfect, but as the layers add up, it makes things easier to go through the holes of the cheese
to illustrate how analyses of major accidents and catastrophic systems failures tend to reveal multiple, smaller failures leading up to the actual hazard. In the model, each slice of cheese represents a safety barrier or precaution relevant to a particular hazard
seeing like a state
states seek to force “legibility” on their subjects by homogenizing them and creating standards that simplify pre-existing, natural, diverse social arrangements. Examples include the introduction of last names, censuses, uniform languages, and standard units of measurement.
how does seeing like a state cause disasters
causing distrust and other
banality of evil
Evil doesn’t manifest from someone that is bad, but rather someone that didn’t have a reason to do the bad thing or like another option kind of ting
Regular people can do bad things
, terrible things are done not by obviously evil people, but by individuals who go along with harmful actions without questioning or thinking deeply about the consequences. It highlights the dangers of blindly following orders and the potential for ordinary people to participate in or enable acts of great evil.
