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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. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?

2. Who wrote Climate Wars?

3. Who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel?

4. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?

5. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Zika and what are its effects?

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

5. What is yellow fever and what are its effects?

6. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?

7. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

8. What is permafrost?

9. What is the ambiguity effect?

10. What does "anchoring" refer to in behavioral psychology?

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 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 3

Discuss the role of the Neolithic Revolution in terms of climate change. How did the adjustment to an agrarian system affect culture and civilization? How did it affect the planet? Why do some individuals believe that the agrarian transition was a negative event?

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