“Urban Colossus,” Edward Glaeser
- When was article written? What has changed in NYC since then? (I realize that you were 6 or 7 at the time.)
- Why has NYC been a magnet for immigrants? What factors both attracted them and caused them to stay? Some of you are immigrants, so what are your reasons for coming here? Your parents’ reasons?
- What is economic “agglomeration”?
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore.
- What is the central thesis (the main idea, the “point”) of the film in one sentence?
- When was film released? What has changed since then? (again, I realize that you were 6 or 7 at the time.)
- In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore states that there is a moral imperative to act to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Gore suggests that the moral imperative derives from a duty to leave to future generations a planet as inhabitable as the one we inherited from our ancestors. What is the exact nature of this obligation?
