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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. When was the country of Pakistan formed?
2. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?
3. Globally, deforestation accounts for about what percentage of carbon emissions?
4. National Geographic calculated that what percentage of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 7 billion people?
5. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is carbon dioxide?
2. What does "person-days" refer to and who coined this term?
3. How is the air quality index quantified? What does it relate?
4. What is the Kyoto Protocol? When was it signed?
5. Describe the Mendocino Complex Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?
6. Describe the extreme weather events of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere.
7. Why is the idea of shifting agriculture northward as the planet warms not a reasonable goal, based on the author's assertions in "Hunger"?
8. What does the United Nations project for food supply and demand in 2050?
9. Describe the Thomas Fire. When and where did it occur and what damage did it cause?
10. How many prior mass extinctions has the earth experienced? What caused them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the growth of wildfires across the western United States and other regions globally in the past century. What has been attributed to the rise in wildfires? How have the natures of the fires themselves changed? What is projected for the future regarding wildfire in these regions?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the issue of freshwater scarcity. How much water on the earth is fresh? How much of that water is available for consumption? Why is there a water crisis and how could it be addressed?
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