Exam 22: Technology and The Global Environment

The anti-nuclear movement is an outstanding example of a movement that forced change because of imperfect price controls.

With its huge population,Mainland China is the world's number-one polluter.

What was the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev a firm believer in?

What would the textbook suggest is the cause of the back-and-forth public opinion about the existence and dangers of global warming?

What element blocks excessive ultraviolet radiation from reaching the earth?

Monsanto,the American-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation,has scoured the earth in a quest to patent plants that have been used for centuries by indigenous people as medication and turn them into commercially viable medicines.What do indigenous people call this practice?

Shannon believes that all modern technological advances are harming the entire planet and she is starting a new Facebook group to organize resistance to them.What does Shannon feel that humans today live in?

Which of the following was responsible for the manufacture of the first nuclear bomb?

When looking at the graph showing surface air temperatures and CO₂ levels,which of the following best describes the pattern?

What is the social distribution of risk?

For at least how long must waste from nuclear reactors be kept away from human beings in order to not contaminate them?

Which of the following terms expresses the idea that technology is bound to fail due to its sheer complexity?

When did North Americans enter the era of big science and big technology?

Explain how the social construction of environmental problems shapes the way we perceive them.

Sabina is investigating the claim that 20 000 plant species,1350 vertebrate species,and millions of insects all live in the Atlantic forest in Brazil.What is she investigating?

According to some analysts,what will enable environmental problems to self-correct?

Discuss the suggestion that technological innovation and market forces will enable us to overcome environmental problems.

How did "high tech" become "big tech?" What does this say about the creation and diffusion of technology?

Daniel is aware that in the production of his new patented invention,there is the possibility for things to go awry.He believes that this possibility for harm is outweighed by the potential of his invention to be beneficial.Which of the following terms is used to refer to how Daniel most likely views the less positive possibilities of invention?

What aspect of Darwin's theory of species survival did Russian naturalist and social thinker Petr Kropotkin emphasize?