Chat with AIExam 8: Development Climate, or the Nature of Development
What is the Gaia Hypothesis and why is it important for sustainable development?
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VerifiedVaries. The Gaia hypothesis conceives of the as a "physiological system" that "behaves as if it were alive," maintaining the surface temperature of the planet and recycling nutrients (in soil, water, and forests) with the "unconscious goal of regulating the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable state for life. This hypothesis is important because the course of the development project has been driven by consumption of dwindling resources. To reserve this process, it is imperative for the global community to give greater priority and value to resources that are not produced for sale-such as biodiversity, habitat, and the global commons (air, water, forests, wetlands, local knowledges, etc.), instead of reducing them to market prices given their interdependent complexity. The Gaia hypothesis therefore relates to the relevance of maintaining balance in this biodiversity.
All of the following are indicators of climate change, except ______.
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Why do climate change effects, such as the Arctic melt, represent an opportunity for industry?
(41) VerifiedVaries. The melting of Arctic sea ice represents a new carbon frontier of oil and gas reserves and 25 percent of the world's known coal reserves. And the oil industry, with its huge sunken costs, is preparing to exploit this opportunity. Given that states and firms are geared to maintaining market position it is not surprising that such reserves are attractive. Self-interest has pushed nations to ignore the risk of climate change when there are over $100 trillion worth of unburned carbon.
Social movements have renamed biofuels as agrofuels because their production ______.
(32) In what ways does the Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA) incorporate the goals of the globalization project? Is the shift from "old" to "new" green revolution similar to the World Bank's shift toward 'development with a human face'? Explain.
(42) Discuss the rationale and goals of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA). In what ways does its action contribute to "carbon imperialism"? Is this an example of the "solution as problem" syndrome? Explain.
(43) An example of recycling the (market) problem as a solution, identified in the text, is the practice of ______.
(39) How is the oil industry already positioned to benefit and protect itself regarding fossil fuel exit or phaseout?
(30) What is the difference between the Emissions Trading Scheme and Clean Development Mechanism?
(36) Critiques of agroecological organics argue that they are too expensive compared with conventional farming. Their argument however ignores the fact that ______.
(42) Critically but briefly evaluate World Bank's "agriculture for development" program.
(34) Mixed farming and cover crop are methods of sustainable high-input conservation.
(37) The Chinese use word "Wumai" (meaning fog) to describe the role of high-mass consumption and industrialization at the expense of environment.
(38) There is a key distinction between opposing models of sustainability, sustainable intensification via commercial inputs vs. biodiverse, ecological farming methods. The former has institutional and market power, the latter has staying power.
(31) The combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. Thus, we are narrowing our ecological foundations and therefore the ability of humans and other species to survive climatic change.
(25) Though biofuels are viewed as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, they can contribute to global warming because ______.
(27) According to Gaia hypothesis, the earth is a physiological system that behaves as if it were alive.
(37) The fact that those in Beijing, China use the "Wumai" (meaning fog) rather than "Wuran" (meaning pollution) to describe the poor air quality in their city is an illustration of ______.
(37) Small producers use many strategies to adapt to the effects of climate change. This includes all of the following except ______.
(37) Discuss whether the promises of conservation have stood up to the realities of such projects. Using sustainable rice intensification as an example, explain the myth of sustainability and how it illustrates the idea of development as rule.
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