What, according to Lewis Mumford, central tenant of modern society did Y2K threaten?
a) The fallacy of the naturalistic fallacy of scientific knowledge
b) The unfinalizability of cultural change
c) The quasi-religious character of our technological faith in machines
d) All of the above
c) The quasi-religious character of our technological faith in machines
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A condition in which cities grow more rapidly than the jobs and housing they can sustain:
If ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan were to agitate for a part of the country to secede based on concentrations of ethnic Russians, where would the secessionist movement be concentrated?
A. the north central region northwest of the capital Astana B. along the margins of the Caspian Sea C. along the border with the Caucasus countries D. the region around the old capital of Almaty
Temperatures in Earth's atmospheric layers vary in a zig-zag pattern with altitude principally because
A) the chemical composition of the atmosphere varies. B) air is compressible. C) the density of air varies with altitude. D) pressure varies with altitude.
Energy efficiency is ________
A) a measurement of overall energy use B) reducing energy wastes C) increasing demand but decreasing accessibility of various energy sources D) the amount of energy used per dollar of economic output E) the process of using less energy to obtain goods and services