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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. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?
2. How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a single pound of hamburger meat?
3. The area referred to as America's "tornado alley" has moved how many miles in just 30 years, according to the author in "Disasters No Longer Natural"?
4. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?
5. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author project will happen in terms of wildfire growth by 2050?
2. What is carbon dioxide?
3. What is a "hyperobject"?
4. How is "Anthropocene" defined?
5. What is the relationship between Syria and climate change, according to the author?
6. What does the author say about methane release in relation to melting ice sheets in "Drowning"?
7. In "Drowning," the author cites a 2018 study on the melt rate of the Antarctic ice sheet. What did this study show?
8. How does the author describe the distribution of freshwater in "Freshwater Drain"?
9. What is "wet-bulb temperature"?
10. How is water demand from the global food system, industry, and energy projected to increase over the next three decades?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the impacts of global warming region-by-region if the earth's temperature raises by two degrees Celsius. How would this impact coastal areas? How would inland areas be affected? What regions would be impacted the worst?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the correlations between climate change and conflict. What international conflicts or civil wars have emerged in the past century due to climate change? What have been the results of those conflicts? What is projected for the future regarding global warming and conflict?
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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