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What is 32:1
What is the ratio of North American consumption to developing world consumption?
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What is Texas
What state could you fit the entire population of the world into?
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What is autonomy, frugality, equality, OR collective sharing
Name two of the core principles of degrowth
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What is Vaclav Smil
What is the name of the man who's article we summarized?
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What is 9 billion
What is the world population supposed to reach by 2050?
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What is 4 Celsius
How much will temperature increase by 2050?
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What is biophysical limits and atmospheric limits
As mentioned in the degrowth video, what are the two limits identified as reasons for the need to switch to degrowth?
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What is Japan has higher GDP and Philippines has higher happiness
Of Japan and the Philippines which has a higher GDP and which has higher happiness?
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What is consumption
What attribute of capitalism causes environmental problems?
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What is 8 inches
How many inches has sea level risen since 1901?
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What is 70; 30
The transition to degrowth would require that developed countries should reduce their energy consumption by ____ percent to allow the developing countries to increase by ____ percent
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What is a net positive effect on the world
What is the end goal of degrowth according to Smil?
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What is high GDP
Capitalism ties happiness to ...
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What is 10%
In 21000 how much will climate change be taking out of the US's GDP?
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What is by failing to recognize biophysical limits of growth, fails to create legislation that targets businesses, failure to restructure the global system of governance
What is one of the many ways the current model of sustainable development has failed?
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What is fostering growth in developing countries and degrowth in developed countries
What is Smil's proposed plan for degrowth?
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What is 72; 11
If the whole developing world were to catch up to the US in terms of consumption it would be as if the world had a population of ____ billion people and world consumption rates would increase by ____fold
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What is $326 billion
How much money was lost due to extreme weather events in 2017?
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What is Christian
What is the first name of the man interviewed in the degrowth video?
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What is cowboy is based on the idea that resources are unlimited and spaceman is based on the idea that resources are finite
What is the difference between cowboy and spaceman economics?
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