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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

2. What was the population of New Orleans in 2005 (prior to Katrina)?

3. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?

4. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

5. What did Donald Trump notoriously toss to members of a crowd during a press conference in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discovery did Irakli Loladze make regarding human nutrition and climate change?

2. Who wrote Silent Spring and what is the subject of this book?

3. What is carbon dioxide?

4. What is the basic rule of thumb when looking at climate change and cereal grains, according to the author in "Hunger"?

5. How do wildfires affect greenhouse gas emissions?

6. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?

7. Describe the extreme weather events of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere.

8. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?

9. What is the World Bank and when was it formed?

10. What is the relationship between Syria and climate change, according to the author?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the increase in hurricane frequency globally in the past century. How have hurricanes changed? What has caused these changes? What is projected for the future regarding hurricane activity?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Paris Agreement? What countries have signed on with the Paris Agreement? What is the goal of the agreement? How have the countries involved changed to account for their signing to the agreement?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the critical response to The Uninhabitable Earth. What criticism has come from the climate change community? What criticism has come from outside that community? Why is this book compared to Silent Spring?

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