Why do you think the video on the green new deal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ) is narrated from the future? If you like, compare this form of storytelling to the effects of Klein’s or Kolbert’s reporting on the planet’s future. Include at least one analysis of a screen shot from the video to make your point.

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How have globalization, free market ideology, and/or austerity politics made the climate crisis worse?

What kind of policy changes must we demand of political elites?

What is the difference between the role of the journalist and the role of the scientist in this piece?

Answer the following questions. This post should not just report on work done, but should reflect on the argumentative and organizational goals of the paper. Ideally, writing the post will help you produce a stronger draft.

1. How are you thinking about your paper’s organization or key arguments right now? You might reflect here on how your textual examples connect to your paper’s overall focus or argument.
2. Have you encountered any challenges or stumbling blocks?
3. How has your understanding of the novel or the secondary sources changed in the process of writing?

Post your summaries here. Be sure to list the name of your group members at the top.

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Post your summaries here if you are assigned a blog post for today.

Towards the end of chapter 7, Selver tells Davidson that “we’re both gods, you and I. You’re an insane one, and I’m not sure whether I’m sane or not.” (180)

• What is the function of a god in this book?
• Why are Selver and Davidson both gods?
• Why is Davidson an “insane one”?
• As a god, does Selver bring about good things or is the story here more complicated?

What are Lyubov’s final words and how do they affect the decisions that Selver makes in chapter six? What do you think Le Guin is trying to say about the “roots” of violence and prejudice: do these things come from within the human or are they foreign, like a virus?