The European Green Deal is a series of policy initiatives (directives and funding) which aim to reduce carbon emissions to reach climate neutrality by 2050. These policies include, but are not limited to, heavily increased subsides for green technology, higher taxes on fossil fuel energy and phasing out the production and use of petrol-based cars.

The year is 2016. You are Shinji, the son of the leader of a secretive governmental organization known as NERV. NERV's parent organization has recently completed the Human Instumentality Project, which it believes is the next step in humanity's evolution.

The Human Instrumentality Project has united the consciousnesses of all of humanity into a single, transcendental being without a physical body that exists outside the material world. Every human being that is part of the Instrumentality Project remains conscious and continues to experience existence, but is part of a greater whole in which they share the memories and experiences of every other human being alive. In Instrumentality, one can no longer experience physical pain or suffering.

You possess the capability to reject Instrumentality. If you do, you will return to the physical world as a human being. You know that other human beings also can choose to reject Instrumentality, but you do not know if any will do so.

Law firms traditionally operate by a partnership model where lawyers hold ownership and management positions. Lawyers themselves invest their own capital to fund the firm's operations.

A private equity model would have a private equity firm own and manage a law firm.

Safetyism is an approach that prioritises feelings of safety in policy making. This includes university campuses mandating safe spaces, use of trigger words and bias response teams (eg, university employees being called in to deal with non-criminal discriminatory speech).

In the status quo, financial institutions use the money deposited by customers (e.g. in a bank account) to make loans and investments. Deposits could alternatively be used to buy government-back safe assets (e.g. treasury bonds), which tend to have the lowest risk of default of all assets.

In this debate, an “equity account” would be an account where the financial institution can use deposits for loans and investments. The value of an equity account fluctuates based on the value of its underlying assets.

A “narrow banking” regulation is the requirement that all financial institutions back up all deposits with an equivalent value of government-back safe assets, unless customers choose to deposit their money in an “equity account”.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Cross carpeting in African politics refers to the act of switching political parties. It occurs when politicians move from one party (usually a powerful one) to another or creating a totally new one. Examples include: Julius Malema leaving the ANC to the EFF, Peter Obi leaving the APC to join the Labor Party in Nigeria, Alan Kyeremanteng leaving the NPP to create the Movement for Change.

Adam and Eve were the first human beings who lived immortal lives in the Garden of Eden, a perfect paradise. Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil against God's will. As a result, Eve and all future women were cursed to have pain in bearing children and to be ruled over by their husbands. Adam, and all future men, were cursed to toil for food for the rest of their lives. Both lost their immortality and were banished from the Garden of Eden.