Title: PTSI / Anglais - Colles

Q: Change in Global Temperature
A: +0.67°C since 1950

Q: Change in atmospheric CO2
A: Today there is a level of 420 ppm (part per million) CO2 in the atmosphere, which is 100 more since 1974 and the highest level since millions of years

Q: Change in sea level
A: +3-4mm / year, which is +70mm since 1990

Q: What's the problem with Yellowstone and national parks in general ?
A: Yellowstone had 1 million visitor during last June alone. National parks are preserved areas where wildlife and nature is exceptionnal. But it doesn't seems to work that much because many people come and it impacts resources, calm and wildlife

Q: What can you say about today's "age of waste" ?
A: Today, we have a "throwaway addiction", which means we throw things away easily when we can just repair them.
Today, it's 100 times more lucrative to mine gold from e-dumps than from the ground
It's a lifestyle choice that began after WW2: lightbulbs is an example: in 1920, the life expectancy of a lightbulb was of 2500 hours while in 1930 it became only 1000 hours.

Q: What can you say about women in STEM fields ?
A: STEM stand for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
There are multiple problems:
- In Scotland, a large number of women graduate in STEM subjects but then fail to move onto a STEM career compared to men (according Royal Society of Edingburgh).
- 44% of men vs 38% of women in STEM fields in the US. But actually, in specific fields including sciences, engineering mathematics and computer science, there can be way less women. As an example, only 1 out of 5 people in a computer science class is en woman.
- Lack of interest, lack of confidence, stereotype threat. But also sociatal causes with harassment, lack of support, discrimination and a lack of role model.
Some organizations are making efforts: StemBox or GirlsWhoCanCode for example are trying to encourage women to explore male-dominated STEM fields

Q: Are robots stealing our jobs or solving labour shortage ?
A: - Covid-19 has accelerated the rise of worker robots.
- There is an unemployment rate very high in the USA and in the UK but also worker shortages. Actually, people lose their willingness to work hard for a low pay in unrewarding jobs.
- Robots are solving this worker shortage with for example: floor-cleaning robots, hamburger making robots, robots that harvest automatically, or robots that sort parcels in distribution centers.
- BUT some areas can't be filled with robots with for example a short of at least 100.000 truck drivers in the UK.

Q: "Is it ok to..." the bot that gives you an instant moral judgment (Ask Delphi)
A: Ask Delphi is a robot that gives you an instant moral judgment. This bot if fed with more than 1.7 million examples of people's ethical judgments on everyday questions or scenarios.
Tells you wether something is right, wrong, or indefensible => To what extent can results be pertinent ?
Well, I tried, and it's pretty accurate. But human being has to make his opinion by himself.
FUN FACT: In greek mythology, Delphi is an oracle not to be trusted.