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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 percent of the world's mammals (by weight) are currently wild?
2. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?
3. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?
4. Who was known as the Unibomber?
5. Who is the Swedish journalist that wrote The Re-Origin of Species?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?
2. How does climate change affect economy?
3. Describe the ideological contrast between China and Russia in terms of climate change.
4. What is yellow fever and what are its effects?
5. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?
6. What is confirmation bias and how does it apply to global warming?
7. What is malaria and how many people does it kill each year?
8. What is permafrost?
9. What is Zika and what are its effects?
10. What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is the Kyoto Protocol? When was it adopted? When was it entered into force? How many parties are there to the Protocol? What is its goal?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the threat of prehistoric plagues as a result of global warming. Where are these prehistoric plagues hidden? How have they been discovered? What threats do they present in the next century?
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