Deck 18: Working As Agents for Change

Question 1

To have significant impact on issues will require not only individual effort but people working together.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The pattern of networks is relevant to scientific topics but is not applicable to sustainability work.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

"Collective learning" is a characteristic that gives the human species significant ecological adaptability.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Research shows that the most effective way to motivate people to make behavioral changes is to teach them about the crises facing the planet.

Question 5

Social marketing refers to teaching people how to work together in groups.

Question 6

Because language is a subjective experience among individual hearers, actual word choice has little impact.

Question 7

We should continue to use the words we are accustomed to using; that is the most effective way eventually to win over people who do not agree with our worldviews.

Question 8

Ecolinguistics studies the role of language in environmental problems and solutions.

Question 9

Ecobabble is the practice of making up words to describe as-yet undefined conditions.

Question 10

Greenwashing is the use of deliberately misleading terms in order to portray an environmentally responsible image.

Question 11

Semantic vagueness is the use of words with unclear or indefinite meanings, such as the word "natural."

Question 12

Consensus means that everyone in the group has reached complete agreement.

Question 13

A fundamental goal of sustainability work is to persuade other people to agree with what we are telling them about environmental issues.

Question 14

Resilient communities are likely to be a fundamentally important asset in the coming years of transition.