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EGR 150 - Paper 4 – Sustainability Concepts (Part 1 of 4)
Instructions: Watch each video and answer the following answer for each. They do not need to be in complete sentences. Make sure each questions is
answered correctly to receive full credit.
Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/)
1. Why is the system in crisis? Because it constitutes of a linear system that is primarily being run on a fine line system
2. What is the system ‘bumping up’ against? limits
3. Why is the government represented by a person? Because the government is primarily of the people, for the people, as well as by the people. It is also the
government’s job to watch as well as take care of its people.
4. Why are the corporations represented bigger than the government? Because it is in actual sense bigger than the government and holds 51 over 100 of the
currently biggest economies and this makes then more powerful than the government.
5. What is the first stage? Extraction
6. What is our first limit? Running out of resources
7. How much of the world’s resource have we used in the past 30 years? One third
8. How many planets would we need if everyone lived like the US? Three to five planets
9. How many trees are we loosing every minute? The Amazon is losing 2000 trees every single minute
10. What is the second stage? Production
11. How many synthetic chemicals are used in commerce today?100,000 synthetic chemicals
12. What does BFR stand for and what is their purpose? BFR stands for Brominated Flame Retardants and primarily refer to chemicals that are employed to
make stuff more fireproof.
13. What food is at the top of the food chain with the highest level of toxic contaminants? Human Breast milk
14. Who bares the biggest burden on the toxic chemicals? Babies
15. How many pounds of pollution in the form of toxic chemicals do U.S. industries admit to producing each year? 4,000,000,000 pounds
16. What is the second limit? Moving the industries that pollute the country overseas in an attempt to safeguard it. Unfortunately this never works out as these
pollutants are blown back into the country y wind currents where they continue to pollute our country.
17. What is the third stage? Distribution
18. How does everything in the store get to be cheap? What does the company do to the cost? The products in the store are so affordable since the people who
purchase less have to pay the costs. The price of the products is lowered through victimizing other people such as displacing people from their natural
habitants to allow extraction of their resources that they do not benefit from or having very young children work in coal farms at very low costs to make the
final products so affordable as there is very low cost of production. The costs are kept low in the stores through externalized costs
19. What is the golden arrow? It is an arrow very vital to the system as it entails purchasing or shopping of the products to ensure the system keeps running.
This arrow ensures that products are extracted from the stores to make room for new products and is, thus, regarded as the heart of the system.
20. What did President Bush suggest us to after 9/11? President Bush encouraged Americans to go shopping after the catastrophe.
21. What percent of the materials produced through the harvesting and production cycle is trashed in 6 months? 99% of the produced products is trashed six
months following its purchase.
22. Who changed the way of life after WWII? The corporations in an attempt to raise the fallen economy designed and decided via the advice of a retail
economist victor decided that the only way to grow the economy is by making consumption of goods and services the country’s way of that has become a
norm to date.
23. What is planned obsolescence? It means producing products that have a short lifespan so that they can be changed to wastes as soon as possible. For
example plastic bags that primarily constitute products designed for the damp or stupid people.
24. What is perceived obsolescence? It entails convincing people to get rid of their current materials stuff that is in good shape to obtain new stuff that has just
being changed in appearance to make it look better. This type of obsolescence makes people throw away good stuff to purchase the same stuff in a better
shape.
25. How many ads do you see in day? 3,000 ads
26. What do commercials tell you? The commercials are telling us that everything in our life is very wrong and the only way to make this better by going
shopping.
27. What does ‘the media’ do during all of this? The media helps convert the materials into products and ensuring that only the part that goes to the economy is
primarily shopping.
28. What is the last stage? Disposal
29. How much garbage does each person contribute to the waste stream each day? 4.5 pounds per person in a day
30. What is the number one source of dioxins? Incinerators
31. Will recycling solve our problems? Yes recycling lowers the pressure to manufacture new products and above all strives to lower the garbage without
producing the biggest pollutant, dioxin. However, recycling isn’t enough.
32. Do we have to live with it? No we do not have to live with it since it was created by people; it only takes people to destroy it.
Story of Change(http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-change/)
1. What did Ghandi say? Ghandi said that we should be the change
2. What 3 things do you need for change? First having a big idea on how to make things better, second commitment and working in unison to solve the
problem, and lastly, taking the action to resolve the problem.
3. What does the basic movements starts with? Understanding the kind of change maker an individual is as all types of change people are important.
Story of Broke(http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-broke/)
1. How much money is left over after taxes are collected from everyone? None as the government still claims to be broke
2. What is the leading thing that takes away from taxes? Large amounts of taxes are lost to corporate tax loopholes as well as unprecedented attacks intended
for the richest one percent population.
3. What is the second thing? Probing The military also takes an enormous amount of tax payers money
4. What are products made of oil?
5. How many scholarships could the government give out? Six million students
6. Are we broke? No we aren’t broke as there is plenty of money only that it has being wrongfully invested.
Story of Citizens United vs F.E.C(http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-citizens-united-v-fec/)
1. What percentage of people think that corporations have too much power? 85% of Americans
2. What is the number one thing that corporations must do? Make more profits for their sole shareholders
3. What is the solution that we need to act on? New constitutional Amendment to provide that the first amendment is made for American people and doesn’t
cater for corporations.
EGR 150 - Paper 4 – Sustainability Concepts (Part 2 of 4)
Instructions: Watch each video and answer the following answer for each. They do not need to be in complete sentences. Make sure each questions is
answered correctly to receive full credit.
How the Earth was Made(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys5hmBkyvag)
1. Where are the oldest Rocks found? What part of the world? In a Meteor Crater, North Arizona
a. Why? A mass of meteor rocks fell on this part of the world
2. About how old is the Earth? 30 billion years ago
a. How many years? 4.5billion years ago
3. How do you explain the Earth was formed by tons of small microscopic particles coming together? As the ancient minerals and rocks bumped into each
other, they aggregated into bigger particles. These billions of...