{"id":234,"date":"2021-07-03T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2021-11-12T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:48:38","slug":"exponential-growth-equals-extinction-exercise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/exponential-growth-equals-extinction-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Exponential growth equals extinction&#8221; exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this exercise, you are asked to connect five short resources:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1) &#8216;Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto&#8217; by Vandana Shiva\u00a0<a class=\"inline_disabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MNM833K22LM%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) Canada, it&#8217;s time for Land Back by Pam Palmeter\u00a0<a class=\"inline_disabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c2SGaGRhYZs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) 300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds, Post-Carbon Institute\u00a0<a class=\"inline_disabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cJ-J91SwP8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4) Communication tactics disguised as politics, by Greta Thunberg,\u00a0<a class=\"inline_disabled external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TYdcz1bbP3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5) Elephant in the Room, narrated by Donna Haraway, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i2Xz9fJ85I0\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dipping in questions for you to sit with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do the four resources have in common? How are they different?<\/p>\n<p>How are the three stories similar or different from what you were taught at school and by the media?<\/p>\n<p>What is the mainstream story about sustainability? How is this story reproduced in society? What would be an Indigenous view of sustainability?<\/p>\n<p>Who has provided the materials and the labour force for the construction and maintenance of the house modernity built?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this exercise, you are asked to connect five short resources: 1) &#8216;Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto&#8217; by Vandana Shiva\u00a0here. 2) Canada, it&#8217;s time for Land Back by Pam Palmeter\u00a0here. 3) 300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds, Post-Carbon Institute\u00a0here. 4) Communication tactics disguised as politics, by Greta Thunberg,\u00a0here. 5) Elephant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24045,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/facinghumanwrongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}