WEEK 2 SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
Paper details:
PLEASE complete only those questions you can fit in 1 page from the top of the list. After the client will pay more
Please answer these questions from Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe pgs. 63 -126
1) What is the strange sighting the Inuits on Banks Island began to have (p. 64)?
2) What’s going with the world’s butterflies (pgs. 67 – 71)?
3) What is the Wyeomyia smithii more commonly known as? How is climate change affecting this insect (pgs. 73 – 79)?
4) What happened to the golden toads of Costa Rica (pgs. 80 – 82)?
5) Why do ecologists ironically appreciate climate change and what is the worst case scenario presented at the end of Part I (pgs. 86 – 87)?
6) has climate change happened before at the local level? What might be an example (p. 95)?
7) Climate change models are very complex.How long does it take to run the Goddard Institute for Space Studies model? Explain the two types of equations that go into climate models (pgs. 99 – 102).
8) What will climate change potentially mean for water supplies (pgs. 107 – 109)?
9) How was climate disaster different for Tell Leilan compared to what the USA may experience (pgs. 114 – 115)?
10) What does the joke “God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands” mean and what changes to the built environment can we expect with changes in precipitation (pgs. 120 – 124)?
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Answer the discussion questions from Carolan p. 65.
THERE ARE 4 QUESTIONS
1.It is often said that we’ve become a throwaway society. why do you think this is?
2.when something of yours breaks, rips, or simply stops working, how often do you first try to get it repaired?…what are some of the barriers to repair and reuse?
3.do corporations bear any responsibility for waste, or is it a problem best addressed among consumers and through better municipal waste management practices?
4.is it necessity the mother of invention, to repeat an old familiar saying, or is invention the mother of necessity?
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Answer the discussion questions from Carolan p. 86
THERE ARE 4 QUESTIONS
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Ask a question on anything from Week 2 that you have read or seen
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Please prepare a summary/response for the David Keith geoengineering video
Please prepare a summary response for this TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_climate_change (Links to an external site.)
needs to have a thees in bold
1.introduction
2.summary
3.response
4.comment
each subtitle needs only 2 or
3 sentences or less
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Please prepare a summary/response for ‘Louisiana Climate Change Skeptics’
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/us/louisiana-climate-change-skeptics/index.html (Links to an external site.)
needs to have a thees in bold
1.introduction
2.summary
3.response
4.comment
each subtitle needs only 2 or
3 sentences or less
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Please prepare a summary/response for ‘Half of the US Military’s Sites are Vulnerable to Climate Change. Now what?
http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2018/01/half-us-militarys-sites-are-vulnerable-climate-change-now-what/145629/ (Links to an external site.)
needs to have a thees in bold
1.introduction
2.summary
3.response
4.comment
each subtitle needs only 2 or
3 sentences or less
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Please prepare a summary/response for ‘ 106 lawmakers — including 11 Republicans — tell Trump climate change is a national security threat’
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/18/16791106/white-house-climate-change-national-security-strategy-threat-military (Links to an external site.)
needs to have a thees in bold
1.introduction
2.summary
3.response
4.comment
each subtitle needs only 2 or
3 sentences or less
