Exam 1: Environmental Problems and Society

During the course of this exam, six more species will go extinct. Why? Identify at least three factors that contribute to this loss. Be sure to discuss how these factors are both "material" and "ideal" and draw explicitly upon the concepts from readings and lecture.?

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Question 1

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(1) Habitat loss, example of suburban Sprawl: material-driven by increased populations and economic development; ideal-American ideology suggests that the house and the green lawn are a necessary part of the social experience (2) Pollution: material-demand for more goods, lax regulations; ideal-consumption of unnecessary goods (3) Leaking of global gene pool: material - global travel, GMOs mix genes and species; ideal-global travel as a result of leisure and business, cultural demand of social experience (4) Deforestation: material-trees consumed for technological and material ends (paper, furniture; ideal-moral values make this acceptable by constantly demanding new stylish/practical goods.

Although there is still some debate about the implications of human induced climate change, climatologists agree that there has been a discernable human influence on global climate?

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Photochemical smog

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Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Environmental justice

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Question 4

The text defines the ideal as "how we can bring about a more ecological society through governance, mobilization, and the politics of our everyday lives".

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Question 5

As an expert in environmental sociology, you have been asked to give a brief speech at a major international conference on the future of the world's environment. What will you say? Be sure in your speech to say whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic. Justify your answer sociologically, drawing on material from this course.

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Question 6

Environmental good and environmental bad are:

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Question 7

What is the major source of chlorofluorocarbons implicated in the thinning ozone layer?

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Question 8

The author states that "the principle scholarly contribution of the book is the concept of ecological dialogue." Briefly explain what is meant by ecological dialogue and give an example or illustration?

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Question 9

Which of the following are examples of habitat loss?

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Question 10

Which of the following is a predicted outcome of continued global warming?

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Question 11

Scientists from 120 countries signed onto a document issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The conclusion of this Panel was:

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Question 12

The author urges us to consider environmental injustices both domestically and internationally. What does he mean by this? Give two examples?

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Question 13

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Global warming

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Question 14

The realist-constructionist debate in environmental sociology is characterized by differences in materialist versus idealist explanations of social life. Which of the following distinguishes a constructionist perspective on environment problems?

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Question 15

The Material focuses on how consumption, the economy, science, technology, development, population, and the health of our bodies shape our environmental conditions.

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Question 16

What are the two primary ways the author reviews as broad categories to address energy challenges? Give examples?

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Question 17

What, according to your text, is the most erosive force on the planet?

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Question 18

Why does the book say there are "two" ozone problems?

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Question 19

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Soil conservation

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During the course of this exam, six more species will go extinct. Why? Identify at least three factors that contribute to this loss. Be sure to discuss how these factors are both "material" and "ideal" and draw explicitly upon the concepts from readings and lecture.?

Although there is still some debate about the implications of human induced climate change, climatologists agree that there has been a discernable human influence on global climate?

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Photochemical smog

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Environmental justice

The text defines the ideal as "how we can bring about a more ecological society through governance, mobilization, and the politics of our everyday lives".

Environmental good and environmental bad are:

What is the major source of chlorofluorocarbons implicated in the thinning ozone layer?

The author states that "the principle scholarly contribution of the book is the concept of ecological dialogue." Briefly explain what is meant by ecological dialogue and give an example or illustration?

Which of the following are examples of habitat loss?

Which of the following is a predicted outcome of continued global warming?

Scientists from 120 countries signed onto a document issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The conclusion of this Panel was:

The author urges us to consider environmental injustices both domestically and internationally. What does he mean by this? Give two examples?

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Global warming

The realist-constructionist debate in environmental sociology is characterized by differences in materialist versus idealist explanations of social life. Which of the following distinguishes a constructionist perspective on environment problems?

The Material focuses on how consumption, the economy, science, technology, development, population, and the health of our bodies shape our environmental conditions.

What are the two primary ways the author reviews as broad categories to address energy challenges? Give examples?

What, according to your text, is the most erosive force on the planet?

Why does the book say there are "two" ozone problems?

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ Soil conservation

Consumption and Materialism

Money and Markets

Technology and Science

Population and Development

Body and Justice

The Ideology of Environmental Domination

The Ideology of Environmental Concern

The Human Nature of Nature

The Rationality of Risk

Mobilizing the Ecological Society

Governing the Ecological Society

Living the Ecological Society

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