Exam 14: Global Responsibility for the Preservation of the Environment

What is the irony of the global food crisis?

Which efforts in the Global North have helped to alleviate some of the water shortage problems faced in those regions?

Which school of thought is more likely to focus on encouraging swift action on environmental issues to prevent a calamitous future?

Explain the causes of the global food crisis. Which do you think is the most significant contributor? How would you address these issues? What role can domestic governments play? What role can international agencies play?

A neighborhood uses well water, and no individual family has to pay for the water they consume. Thus, each family waters their grass excessively and doesn't bother to conserve water, and the well runs dry. This is an example of which of the following?

Brazil's Forest Code is designed to protect the Amazon rain forest. What percentage of landholding does it require to remain forested?

Which of the following is popularly perceived as an alternative to the quest for unrestrained growth?

Why are realist and experts on great power competition interested in the effects of climate change?

"Neo-Malthusians" and "cornucopians" are the labels given to different schools of thought about the impact of population growth on economic development and environmental quality. Write an essay in which you contrast the positions taken by these two schools on the demographic future of the human species. Based on the available evidence on current population and resource trends, which school of thought do you find more convincing? Why?

Which new and controversial development has reduced the United States' dependence of foreign oil suppliers?