HUMN 303N Latest Update - Actual

HUMN 303N Latest Update - Actual Exam 150 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+

"Maintenance" - CORRECT ANSWER: -Need for serious evaluation of what we need to get by -McK's examples may not be very useful: his aging mother moving in to a retirement home; hope that simplicity of Adirondack mountain lifestyle available to everyone

"Modern" life and cheap fossil fuel

(27 - 33) - CORRECT ANSWER: -Barrel of oil (55 gallons) = 25,000 hours of human

manual labor; each of us consumes 25 barrels/year (300 years of labor!) -"Peak oil": according to many estimates, we have reached our production apex, and can no longer count on finding new supplies to keep up with demand [92 percent of American adults own cars, compared with 6 percent of Chinese (29)].-"Conventional" oil sources depleting; unconventional energy/oil more costly to produce: energy return on investment (EROI) dramatically reduced—oil well = 20:1 (twenty units

of energy/unit invested); Canadian tar sands = 5:1 (31).

-Price of oil/gas spikes in 2008, exacerbating problems of mortgage crisis: "three cities with largest declines in housing prices were entirely auto-dependent: Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Detroit; Portland, Oregon, the bike-and-trolley capital of the country, saw the largest rise in home value" (32). (Recall Jeff Speck's TED talk on "Walkable City.") Also, spikes in oil prices during past 35-40 years have preceded recessions.

Amanda Werner (Do Androids) - CORRECT ANSWER: giant ads for Coca-Cola,

products (Blade Runner)

America's historical legacy of smaller, more de-centralized governance - CORRECT ANSWER: -The Federalist effort (which argued for strong, centralized government) faced off with community-minded agrarians, who felt states were better able to work with/for citizens

artificial intelligence and humanitys troubled relationship with complex

machines/creations (Do Androids) - CORRECT ANSWER: what happens when our

humanoid creations seek liberty, autonomy?

Because climatology (as a science) and large-scale climate-pattern shifts are relatively new, climate change has been discussed politically as a problem that we must address

because it will affect future generations - CORRECT ANSWER: -"This is our

generation's moment to save future generations from global catastrophe" [Barack Obama, 2008] -"If we care about our grandchildren, then we have to do something" [David Attenborough] 1 / 3

-"Shame on us if . . . our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming . . ." [Joseph Lieberman]

Bill McKibben Eaarth (2010) - CORRECT ANSWER: -From "Preface": writing from Ripton, Vermont, a beautiful natural setting of rugged mountains, dense forests, and flowing streams.

-Look more closely: landscape has been rapidly altered by unusually powerful

rainstorms

Bridger National Forest, Wyoming - CORRECT ANSWER: 10,000 acres of sage land

sprayed to increase grazing area for cattle. Sage was killed, but so were willows, the shade of which protected moose; beavers also felled willows to dam streams, creating small lakes in which trout and waterfowl thrived.

Buster Friendly (Do Androids) - CORRECT ANSWER: moving billboards for off-world

colonies (Blade Runner)

Buster Friendly (Do Androids) - CORRECT ANSWER: simulated talk-show host who

discusses superficial topics with his "Friendly Friends"; guests include Amanda Werner, another simulated human; Isidore recognizes that Friendly frequently subverts Mercer, chipping away at his efforts/authority; Friendly reveals during broadcast that Mercerism is fraudulent: Wilber Mercer is a role played on a studio set by an actor from the past

Can organics feed the world? - CORRECT ANSWER: -According to Mary-Howell

Martens, "If the world changes its diet. We need more crops rotating, a more diverse diet, not all based on high fructose corn syrup" (174).-Average citizen in developed world consumes approx. 185 lbs. of meat/year = 1,800 lbs. of grain through animals -"It takes eleven times as much fossil fuel to raise a pound of animal protein as a pound of plant protein" (177).

Case study: Farmers Diner in Quechee, Vermont - CORRECT ANSWER: -Locally sourced dairy, poultry, pork, wheat flour -Big Sky Restaurant in SLO -"It should work. It should spread. If the earth is going to support restaurants, they'll need to look at the Farmers Diner" (139).

Centralized government can pool capital for critical infrastructure - CORRECT

ANSWER: -George Washington, Alexander Hamilton recognized need for canals,

turnpikes—transportation arterials to facilitate commerce and unify national effort = "National Project"

Changes in food productivity - CORRECT ANSWER: -2008 food crisis partially results from Australian drought, switch to biofuels (to reduce emissions): 40 million more people "at risk of hunger" (24).-Crops like corn and wheat will produce smaller yields 2 / 3

Changes to Amazon Basin - CORRECT ANSWER: -Clear cutting in rainforests reduces

evapo-transpiration rates, affecting climate conditions thousands of miles away. Sao Paolo, Brazil's financial center, is now experiencing drought-induced water crisis: many now experiencing water shut-offs for days at a time -Parts of Basin now becoming semi-arid savannas, which may lead to desertification (39)

Changes to biological/physiological norms - CORRECT ANSWER: -Species shrink to

adapt to increased heat. Invasive or harmful species (like jellyfish, ticks, mosquitoes) flourish.

Chap 1: "A New World" - CORRECT ANSWER: -For millennia, we have enjoyed relative climate stability; the 10,000 years of humankind's "domesticated" existence (essentially, the Holocene period) have enabled us to thrive while relying upon predictable fresh- water resources and weather patterns

-Average temps: 58-60 F

-Stability and consistency within each of the following natural/environmental systems: ~Oceans, rivers, fresh-water tributaries ~Glaciers, snow packs, melting ~Agricultural plains, planting and harvesting seasons

Chap 13 cont'd: Pris explains "pre-colonial fiction" - CORRECT ANSWER: -"I got various drugs from Roy—I needed them at first because—well, anyhow" (150) -Pris depressed because of her role/status/duties; plus, "all Mars is lonely. Much worse than this" -Horst Hartman, who runs a "rare postage stamps" store shows Pris "Stories written before space travel but about space travel" . . . "The writers made it up" (150 - 51) = pulp fiction that Philip Dick had read and written during '50s.

Chap 13: late afternoon, Isidore heading home from work - CORRECT ANSWER: - Brings costly, precious food in hopes of spending time with Pris: "two weeks' salary— borrowed in advance from Mr. Sloat" (145) -Isidore goes into debt because of idea of romance, connection; metaphorically paying for companionship -Pris sheds tears while eating a peach: is she manipulating Isidore or genuinely moved by the taste of something fresh and natural?

Chap 15: androids discuss what to do about Isidore, take a vote - CORRECT ANSWER: -Pris casts deciding vote to hide/remain with him -Deckard gets off work (made $3000 for "retiring" Polokov/Garland/Luft), impulsively buys black Nubian goat, indebting himself deeply: must work to pay off debt: "contractual indebtedness" (170) = slave to possession of object -Deckard calls Rachael, tells her to meet him in SF, may need her help; mentions that he bought goat (181)

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