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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. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?

2. Who wrote Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future?

3. Who is the "charismatic, closeted environmental declinist and self-hating Southerner whose descent into suicide, beset by planetary panic, was documented in the podcast 'S-Town'" (244)?

4. Who authored The Shock Doctrine?

5. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" describes "a preference for algorithmic and other kinds of nonhuman decition making, and also applies to our generations-long deference to market forces as something like an infallible, or at least unbeatable, overseer" (188)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does climate change affect economy?

2. Why is the narrative of climate change difficult to translate to film?

3. Describe the ideological contrast between China and Russia in terms of climate change.

4. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?

5. What are some of the examples of climate devastation presented on-screen discussed in "Storytelling"?

6. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?

7. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

8. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?

9. What is UNICEF?

10. What is described as "that basic promise extended by neoliberalism" in "Politics of Consumption" (225)?

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

Describe and discuss the cognitive biases that distend or distort one's perceptions of a changing climate. What is anchoring? What is suggested by the ambiguity effect? What does anthropocentric thinking mean?

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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