Sustainabili and greed
Crossroads Assignment
Multiple Choice Question Template
1. “The assets of the three richest people in the world match the combined annual GDP’s of the 48 poorest countries.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. Good for them – they worked hard to get their wealth
B. The only problem I have with this is that this money is in their bank account and not in mine
C. No problem with this – many of these people give huge amounts to charities
D. I think that it is morally wrong for anyone to have that much money
E. I think that active steps should be taken to correct such immoral wealth imbalances
Notes:
2. “Unless fossil-fuel use slows dramatically, the earth’s average temperature could rise by six degrees Celsius in the next 100 years.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. Who cares?
B. I don’t believe this climate change nonsense
C. Six degrees will make winters much more bearable to me personally
D. I’m a bit concerned about this, but there is nothing that I can do about it
E. I’m a bit concerned about this, but why should I invest my personal time, effort or money in solving a general social problem.
F. I think that individually we can and should strive to solve this problem for the greater good Notes:
3. “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. I don’t believe this tale of doom.
B. Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast, but I don’t think this is a problem as there is plenty of time to find technological solutions to problems that emerge
C. Yes we are consuming natural
Multiple Choice Question Template
1. “The assets of the three richest people in the world match the combined annual GDP’s of the 48 poorest countries.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. Good for them – they worked hard to get their wealth
B. The only problem I have with this is that this money is in their bank account and not in mine
C. No problem with this – many of these people give huge amounts to charities
D. I think that it is morally wrong for anyone to have that much money
E. I think that active steps should be taken to correct such immoral wealth imbalances
Notes:
2. “Unless fossil-fuel use slows dramatically, the earth’s average temperature could rise by six degrees Celsius in the next 100 years.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. Who cares?
B. I don’t believe this climate change nonsense
C. Six degrees will make winters much more bearable to me personally
D. I’m a bit concerned about this, but there is nothing that I can do about it
E. I’m a bit concerned about this, but why should I invest my personal time, effort or money in solving a general social problem.
F. I think that individually we can and should strive to solve this problem for the greater good Notes:
3. “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. I don’t believe this tale of doom.
B. Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast, but I don’t think this is a problem as there is plenty of time to find technological solutions to problems that emerge
C. Yes we are consuming natural