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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. According to a 2016 study, from 1980-210 what percentage of conflict in the world's ethnically diverse countries began in months stamped by weather disaster/

2. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

3. Who wrote Against the Grain?

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

5. In 2018, the World Bank estimated that the current path of carbon emissions would sharply diminish the living condition of how many people living throughout South Asia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does climate change affect economy?

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

5. Who was David Buckel and why is he discussed in the book?

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

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

8. What is Zika and what are its effects?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Paris Agreement? What countries have signed on with the Paris Agreement? What is the goal of the agreement? How have the countries involved changed to account for their signing to the agreement?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the issue of population in regard to climate change. What is the global population today? How much has it grown in the past century? How much is it projected to grow in the next century? How will this affect global warming?

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