Podcast Fix the World, Episode 13, Review Answers
Episode 1
1. Ignore it, or fix it
2. Fix it
3. Take less, give more, and leave more alone
4. We’re entitled to comfort
5. No, the infantile dream conditions our expectations throughout life.
6. We feel entitled to comfort
7. Make a better dream
8. Crave sacrifice more than comfort, work more than leisure, giving more than getting, and gratitude more than satisfaction.
9. The richest 10% own 80% of everything. The poorest 50% own 1% of everything
10. Donating
11. $9million/day = $3.3billion/year
12. $12billion/year
13. Freedom, justice, health, and peace for all
Episode 2
14. To be happy
15. When people you love are suffering, you don’t want to be happy. You should love everyone.
16. Yes
17. To feel as another does
18. Yes
19. Only by ignoring the ones who suffer
20. Ignore the ones who suffer
21. Empathy
22. More than $7,464billion/year
23. $5.50/day
24. Yes
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Episode 3
25. To know what is more important and what is less so, and to live accordingly.
26. Perhaps inversely.
27. That which is most important, which is, perhaps, that which does the most good for the most people.
28. Achieve fully the UN Millennium Development Goals
29. It was the unanimous will of the world’s people as represented in the UN General Assembly in 2000.
30. They haven’t been taught in school, college, church, synagogue, or home
31. Teach the MDG
Episode 4
32. Ending hunger because the world has an abundance of food.
33. Some people eat more than their fair share
34. No
35. No
36. It provides more than enough calories and protein for everyone
37. $240 million/year
38. They eat animals that eat grain
39. It predisposes to cruelty, and eco-destruction
40. It produces greenhouse gas and solid waste, while consuming large quantities of water and antibiotics.
41. It predisposes to heart disease and the common cancers and, now, some infections.
42. Alcoholic drinks are not only unnecessary, but downright harmful. Converting corn to fuel alcohol is a losing proposition,
Episode 5
43. $87,000
44. $5.50/day = $2,000/year
45. No
46. 80%
47. 1%
48. Not taking more than our fair share
49. No one can take much more than they need
50. Luck
51. The rich must give their extra to the poor, and the poor must not crave more than their fair share
52. Teaching from preschool on
Episode 6
53. 80%
54. No, it’s worse
55. Education might be the cause of the world’s problems
56. No
57. Priority, knowing what is more important and what is less so, and living accordingly
58. What isn’t important
59. Honesty
60. To know what is more important and what is less so, and to live accordingly
61. Yes
62. The ability or desire to work hard is determined by genes and environment and these are acquired by luck
63. No
63 Because true self is the same for all and true gravity is the same for all
64. Because all are equal in worth
65. Desire or want
66. Love
67. Neither love nor freedom, the ability to do what you want, is taught in school or college
68. Freedom is doing what you want
69. No
70. Competition, do better than your neighbor and you’ll earn a better reward
Episode 7
71. Gender equality is the cause of world problems
72. No
73. Males
74. Females
75. Female traits
76. Female empowerment
77. Female headed households and a moratorium on men in power
Episode 8
78. Yes
79. Even to tolerate unnecessary child deaths indicates perverted priority. Anything less than total elimination of unnecessary child deaths is unacceptable and non-viable
80. Malnutrition
81. Growth monitoring, Oral rehydration therapy, Breast feeding, Immunization
82. $2.15/person/day
83. $1000/at-risk kid/year or $2.5billion/year total
84. Tiger earned this playing golf. Michael earned more playing basketball.
85. $32billion
86. Almost $500billion
87. Administrator choices on how to spend money. Administrator ignorance of priority
Episode 9
88. $264billion spent over 10 years
89. Sex, and the fear of being alone.
90. Deception
91. Honesty
92. No, most high school and college students admit to cheating
93. Yes
94. 50%
95. Fear of abandonment
96. It’s not consensual, so, yes.
97. Yes
98. Minimum age for marriage, and meaningful pre-nup
Episode 10
99. Cardio = 20million, cancer = 10million, hunger = 10million, infection = 8million
100. Victims of cardio and cancer tend to be rich. Victims of hunger and infection tend to be poor
101. Vaccination, hand washing, safe water, and sanitation
102. For every dollar spent on safe water and sanitation, four dollars are saved in health care costs
103. When tap water is safe, bottled water is unnecessary and eco-destructive. In addition, toxins may leach into the water.
104. Over use and misuse of antibiotics cultivates resistance in all germs
105. They’re overcrowded, taking and excreting antibiotics, and spawning pandemics
106. The make life miserable for a billion people but are easily cured and prevented.
107. Air transport takes on germs in Calcutta and let’s them off in New York, etc.
Episode 11
108. Lack of priority
109. End hunger
110. It was first among the MDG
111. End hunger and poverty. Hungry or poor people can’t care about the eco-system
112. Taking more than your fair share, or, simply, greed
113. Take less, give more, and leave more alone
114. Stop eating meat, fish, and dairy
Episode 12
115. It’s increased
116. It’s gotten worse
117. College education might be the cause of the world’s problems
118. Selfishness and greed
119. Selfishness and greed
120. Replace competition with collaboration, greed with compassion, apathy with activism, and love of money with honesty, humility, and kindness
121. Most high school and college students freely admit to cheating
122. Competitively. Each strives to outdo the others, at least in some niche.
123. Unity College, where everyone is welcome as equal in worth
124. Austerity, Charity, and Truth
125. To fix the world by fostering freedom, justice, health, and peace for all
126. Build the family we all belong to, treat others as self, don’t take extra before everyone has enough, be active, not apathetic, love truth above all
127. The podcast, Fix the World
128. Take less, give more, and leave more alone
129. A better world
130. Everyone is welcome at no cost
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