![]() The world economy has experienced a “slowing” since 2008.How do you think you would adjust to a change like the one depicted in The Age of Miracles? What about your family? Your friends?.Do you think that the state of the planet that your generation has inherited will result in a shift in expectations for the future from that of previous generations? How will that affect your values? Your goals? What will constitute a good life for you?.Do you think the kind of disruption to the planet depicted in this book could actually happen? If so, how? If not, is there any change currently taking place that you think will radically alter life on his planet during your lifetime? What adjustments do you think you personally will have to make? What about public policy changes? How will those happen or be prevented from happening? Will change be embraced or resisted? Why? What accounts for people's different responses to traumatic events and their ability to adapt?.How do you think your sense of time may or may not shift over the course of your first semester at Baruch College? What sort of adjustments do you think you will have to make? ![]() Has your sense of time altered in any way as you have gotten older? Is time fixed or relative? (Consider Einstein's theory of relativity). ![]() ![]() In The Age of Miracles, time is altered when the rotation of the earth slows. ![]()
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