1- Why did the author include the Hopi stories in this chapter?
1- In this chapter, the author tries to demonstrate why justice is so integral to sustainability, and investigates important connections of ethics, justice, and the maintenance of critical Earth systems and cycles. So, the author included the Hopi stories because they indicate that moral and ethical failures lead to critical social failures.
2- Visit the Donella Meadows Institute Website and choose one of the recommended articles to read.
2- Out of the Mouths of the Babes.
3- Write a summary of the articles main points.
3- According to this article, there is a nuclear war predicted to happen in the near future between the U.S. and Russia. Each one of them has nuclear weapons and tries to build bigger bombs and more accurate missiles to ensure its security. In this article, Donella Meadows illustrates that there is another solution to ensure each country’s security; it is so simple that children can come up with. The solution is that both countries have to get rid of their nuclear weapons. In order to prove that, Meadows quoted two conversations from a journal called “Nuclear Concerns and Humankind”. Each one of them was between a father and his young son discussing the nuclear war innocently. These two conversations demonstrated that adults cannot bring themselves to describe problems and solutions simply, and that they spend years of negotiating before they can come close to the idea of throwing away the bombs and being friends just like both sons suggested. …show more content…
4- I think that one of her biggest goals was to live in a world free of crises such as wars and hunger. She graduated from Harvard university, so I think she was ambitious and smart, and her ambition led her to be the lead author of The Limits to Growth book, one of the most popular and controversial books about
1- In this chapter, the author tries to demonstrate why justice is so integral to sustainability, and investigates important connections of ethics, justice, and the maintenance of critical Earth systems and cycles. So, the author included the Hopi stories because they indicate that moral and ethical failures lead to critical social failures.
2- Visit the Donella Meadows Institute Website and choose one of the recommended articles to read.
2- Out of the Mouths of the Babes.
3- Write a summary of the articles main points.
3- According to this article, there is a nuclear war predicted to happen in the near future between the U.S. and Russia. Each one of them has nuclear weapons and tries to build bigger bombs and more accurate missiles to ensure its security. In this article, Donella Meadows illustrates that there is another solution to ensure each country’s security; it is so simple that children can come up with. The solution is that both countries have to get rid of their nuclear weapons. In order to prove that, Meadows quoted two conversations from a journal called “Nuclear Concerns and Humankind”. Each one of them was between a father and his young son discussing the nuclear war innocently. These two conversations demonstrated that adults cannot bring themselves to describe problems and solutions simply, and that they spend years of negotiating before they can come close to the idea of throwing away the bombs and being friends just like both sons suggested. …show more content…
4- I think that one of her biggest goals was to live in a world free of crises such as wars and hunger. She graduated from Harvard university, so I think she was ambitious and smart, and her ambition led her to be the lead author of The Limits to Growth book, one of the most popular and controversial books about