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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. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?
2. What film does the author say "depicts civilization in semi-collapse, but collapsed by a fertility menace" (170)?
3. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize alongside Paul Romer?
4. Who wrote Climate Wars?
5. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the ideological contrast between China and Russia in terms of climate change.
2. What is the ambiguity effect?
3. What is Lyme disease and how many are affected by it yearly?
4. How is plastic panic an example of climate parable?
5. How many people were affected by the 1918 flu? What statistics for the plague are cited in "Plagues of Warning"?
6. What is Zika and what are its effects?
7. What is described as "that basic promise extended by neoliberalism" in "Politics of Consumption" (225)?
8. When did the Black Death occur and what was its fallout?
9. What are some of the examples of climate devastation presented on-screen discussed in "Storytelling"?
10. What is UNICEF?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the issue of climate migration. What does this term mean? How many climate migrants are estimated to be on the planet today? How many people are projected to be displaced as a result of global warming in the next century?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss global economy as it relates to climate change. What statistics does the author provide in "Economic Collapse" to indicate correlations between economies and climate? What is "fossil capitalism"? How are economies projected to change as a result of global warming?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the increase in hurricane frequency globally in the past century. How have hurricanes changed? What has caused these changes? What is projected for the future regarding hurricane activity?
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