Chapter 4 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Do you consider yourself a good decision maker? No matter your answer, how can you improve your decision making skills?
- What did you learn from this story that might help you make a better decision in this class?
- Describe an important decision you've made. What factors did you consider before making the decision?
- How do you weigh personal values, peer influence and long-term consequences when making important decisions?
- Have you ever made a decision you regret? What did you learn from that experience?
- What is a stakeholder?
- Why is it important to consult different stakeholders when doing research or telling a story or making an important decision?
- How would you weigh different stakeholder perspectives if trying to tell a story or make a decision?
- What stakeholders are involved in the issue you're exploring?
- What do you think is easier: research and stories focused on local or national issues?
- What is more important: the urgency of the issues or building long-term consensus around an idea?
- How can stories showcase the difficult nature of decision-making?
- As a society, do you think we're patient?
- Why is problem solving and decision-making hard? What makes this process easier?
- What role should ethics play in our decision-making processes?
- How should we weigh differing ethics and values when making a decision?
- Think about an important decision you've made. Did you consider ethics - yours and those of others - before making the decision?
- How do you weigh personal values, peer influence and long-term consequences when making important decisions?
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Draw or mind map the lessons you learned in this story and how they interconnect.
- Option Two: Listen to a podcast related to this story and come up with three questions you'd like to ask the expert. See if you can find the answers online or submit them us for a future interview!
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Referenced Resources
- Chaotic and crass: a brief timeline of Elon Musk's history
- Can Elon Musk really save the world?
- Elon Musk's good and bad contributions to the environment
- The powerful role financial incentives can play in a transformation
- Green taxes and incentives can help businesses achieve ESG goals
- Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why
- RADIUS
- Why is Budgeting Important in Business?
- The Power of Belief: Do You Live in a World of Abundance or Scarcity?
- Transforming Scarcity Into Abundance
- Members of Parliament: Votes
- What Only the CEO Can Do
- The Powers of the Canadian Prime Minister
- Grizzly Bears
- Wolves
- Cougars
- Wolverines
- How to engage stakeholders in research: design principles to support improvement
- The media often conflates malicious criticism with genuine critique: why it shouldn’t
- Indigenous peoples and communities
- Assembly of First Nations
- There are two kinds of Indigenous governance structures, but Canada has been listening to just one
- Provincial and Territorial Associations
- What is Grassroots Advocacy and Why Does it Matter?
- Recognizing Grassroots Groups
- Take Back Alberta pushes out one premier, aims to make its voice heard in election
- News release: New grassroots Vancouver community group to oppose Jericho Lands luxury high-rise project (Jericho Coalition)
- Leaders ‘never bound’ by Conservative party members’ policy ideas: Pierre Poilievre
- ‘Wolves in green clothing’: Toronto voters have the power to confront fake environmental NIMBYism
- NIMBYism: Nay-saying grumps or neighbourhood activists?
- What is NIMBYism and how is it affecting how much housing is getting built?
- Rich diversity of life drives push for national park protection in B.C.’s Flathead valley
- Could Flathead Valley be Canada's next national park?
- The constitutional distribution of legislative powers
- Parks Canada
- Poll finds public support for national park in B.C.'s Flathead Valley
- Government of Canada and the duty to consult
- Duty to consult
- Documentation:Open Case Studies/FRST522/The Flathead Valley - a Forest of the Ktunaxa Peoples of Canada and the Kootenai Peoples of the United States
- Flathead: Next National Park?
- Canada's Constitution and Natural Resource Development
- The Constitution
- 10 ridings to watch in B.C. on election night
- A wrongly placed national park that will cost First Nations jobs
- Creating new national parks
- Canadian Labour Congress
- Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- Old growth deferrals will be 'devastating' to business
- BC’s old-growth deferral will have far-reaching consequences
- Log drivers protest logging deferrals in Smithers
- Old-growth logging ban would severely damage forest-reliant communities
- British Columbia Chamber of Commerce
- B.C. Chamber of Commerce hugs old-growth trees
- Independent study finds old-growth forests worth more standing than harvested on Vancouver Island
- How a new ‘nature economy’ is transforming the fight for B.C.’s ancient forests
- B.C. old-growth ban could clear cut forest economy
- Registered charities and non-profit organizations
- Don't Let “Perfect” Be the Enemy of “Good”
- When Perfect Is (and Isn't) the Enemy of Good
- When it comes to politics, it's not disagreeing that's the problem — it's that we like each other less
- A respectful Canada has room for disagreement
- Great Bear Rainforest agreement highlights
- Les Leyne: Accord expands Great Bear protection
- First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Great Bear Rainforest
- Great Bear Rainforest partners and communities
- Negotiating Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements in British Columbia, Canada
- Most of Great Bear Rainforest now protected from logging
- Disagreement Doesn't Have to Be Divisive
- The art of political persuasion
- The Dying Art of Disagreement
- Trudeau's net-zero regs push unnecessary fight with provinces
- Western alienation: Let's be clear, the West didn't pull away until it was pushed away
- Heavy-handed interventions from governments aren’t the answer to hesitancy, building trust is
- Ottawa’s heavy-handed approach undermines carbon tax incentives
- Justin Trudeau just axed his own carbon tax
- Far and Widening: The Rise of Polarization in Canada
- Centre for Constitutional Studies
- Trudeau's carbon tax exemptions are causing drama and western provinces are mad
- Pierre Poilievre's path to victory could run through the culture wars
- Doug Ford uses the notwithstanding clause for political benefit
- With Bill 96, François Legault is trying to tiptoe out of Canada’s constitutional order
- Scott Moe vows notwithstanding clause after judge halts pronouns policy
- Danielle Smith says she is prepared to use Alberta sovereignty act against feds' net-zero grid plan
- Does Canadian Federalism Amplify Policy Disagreements?
- The Silent, Creeping Constitutional Crises facing Canada
- Failures of federalism abound
- What ails us
- Good Leaders Know You Can't Fight Reality
- Accepting a Reality That Feels Unacceptable
- The Only Crash Diet to Use to Lose Weight Fast
- The Risks of the Crash Diet
- What Is The Tom Brady (TB12) Diet?
- The Incrementalist
- The Power of the Incrementalism Theory
- Radical vs incremental change: what is the difference?
- National Loon Center
- Nature Needs Half
- The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
- Should we set aside half for nature?
- If we want a whole Earth, Nature Needs Half
- Why gradualists are usually right and radicals are wrong
- On democratic intelligence and failure: The vice and virtue of incrementalism under political fragmentation and policy accumulation
- Against Incrementalism
- How Incrementalism Destroys Progress
- Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’ Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- A ‘Crossroads’ for Humanity: Earth’s Biodiversity Is Still Collapsing
- IPBES
- Endangered Ecosystems Alliance
- Twenty years later, the “War in the Woods” at Clayoquot Sound still reverberates across B.C.
- When should democracy be about consensus and when about conflict?
- Letters to the editor, January 2018: ‘Consensus was never possible’
- 90% of Life is Showing Up
- Woody Allen Said Show Up to Succeed. Is This What He Meant?
- As every statistician knows, 50 plus 1 is not always clear
- Policy Making for the Long Term in Advanced Democracies
- Politics and disengagement: Two-in-five say there’s “no room” for compromise in Canada; most say their interests are ignored
- Is there such thing as complete consensus?
- The Positives of Political Polarization
- Not all polarization is bad, but the US could be in trouble
- Erosion of middle ground has echoes of the 1930s
- 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
- New economic adviser on deck in the Prime Minister's Office
- Acid rain and air pollution: 50 years of progress in environmental science and policy
- The Turning Point on Acid Rain
- Development of the Convention
- Incremental Doesn't Mean Slow
- What are the limits of bioethics in a culturally pluralistic society?
- Dr. Kerry Bowman
- Nature didn’t drop this bomb. We dropped it on nature
- Historic Amazon rainforest fires threaten climate and raise risk of new diseases
- Environmental Ethics
- The human-nature relationship The emergence of environmental ethics
- COVID-19 outbreak: How we deal with animals and the environment threatens human health
- How COVID-19 made Canada comfortable with marginalizing 3.7 million people
- Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after surging deforestation
- 14 amazing space and astronomy discoveries of the 21st century so far
- Top 10 space stories of 2021
- Are people losing faith in the ability of science to provide answers?
- Canadians' trust in science falling, poll suggests
- Researchers study the global decline of insect populations
- There was a 64% reduction of Australian sea lion pups between 1977 and 2019 due to hunting, entanglement in fishing gear or other marine debris and disease.
- Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
- Ecosystems might lose 27% of vertebrate diversity by 2100
- Number of species at risk of extinction doubles to 2 million, says study
- Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Canada, host of the UN biodiversity summit, is struggling to meet its own targets
- On the Virtue of Compromise
- The Charter at 40: An Historic Canadian Compromise
- Canadians deserve a real pipeline compromise
- Countries reach climate deal at COP26, compromise on coal
- Political compromises – like the debt-limit deal – have never been substitutes for lasting solutions
- Compromise is a Failure in Continuous Improvement
- The Great Canadian Compromise: The Canada Letter
- Canada is ‘a bad compromise, an evil gift that keeps giving, mostly trouble’
- National Post View: Another "values charter," even a watered-down one, won't bring anything positive to Quebec
- Politics and disengagement: Two-in-five say there’s “no room” for compromise in Canada; most say their interests are ignored
- Minor tweaks won't fix major flaws in Bill C-69
- Why critics fear Bill C-69 will be a 'pipeline killer'
- It's not just taxes — here is what's really killing Canada's competitiveness
- Survey suggests Albertans' sense of alienation from Ottawa divided along political lines
- Western alienation is very real in Alberta and Saskatchewan
- Polarized Canada needs to find common ground
- Perspectives on gene editing
- The global governance of human cloning: the case of UNESCO
- Debate ethics of embryo models from stem cells
- AI risks leading humanity to 'extinction,' experts warn
- Before worrying about AI's threat to humankind, here's what else Canada can do
- Conservation and colonialism – A Statement from the Southern Africa Community Leaders Network
- ‘We didn’t accept it’: DRC minister laments forcing through of Cop15 deal
- Fortress conservation is heading for a crisis that can’t come soon enough
- Why Brazil's Indigenous land — home to uncontacted tribes — needs to be protected: researcher
- Environmental degradation of indigenous protected areas of the Amazon as a slow onset event
- Why the Amazon's Biodiversity is Critical for the Globe
- Far and Widening: The Rise of Polarization in Canada
- Mass Polarization in Canada: What’s Causing It? Why Should We Care?
