Chat with AIExam 15: Populations,Cities,and the Environment
The Environmental Defense Fund hires scientists,economists,and lawyers to lobby the government and to educate the public about the environmental consequences of modern life.They brag that they had a part in passing important elements of the Clean Air Act,California's emissions rules,and a treaty to phase out CFCs.With what era of the environmental movement is this sort of organization MOST commonly associated?
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Flint,Michigan,which is dealing with contaminated water,is a majority African American city.Flint,Michigan,has been pointed to as an example of
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Summarize the changes urban areas in the United States experienced in the years after World War II.
(32) VerifiedThe most important change in urban areas after World War II was the increasing shift toward the suburbs.Increasing levels of postwar prosperity made suburbs and home ownership attractive to many,although suburbs were strictly segregated along racial lines.
Suburbanization was not just a response to new levels of postwar prosperity but also reflected a retreat from some of the problems associated with city living such as close quarters,noise,and crime.As more families were able to afford single-family homes,large yards with proverbial white picket fences and two-car garages became the image of the American Dream.
Suburban life allows families to avoid some of the problems associated with city living,but it has its own problems including long commutes,little contact between neighbors,and de facto racial segregation of housing and schools.Some observers have also criticized the monotonous uniformity of suburbs,claiming that they promote listless personalities,conformity,and escapism.The decades-long shift of population to the suburbs has accelerated and expanded throughout the nation,with more families moving farther and farther away into what have been called the "exurbs."
The best answers will also mention urban or suburban sprawl,which is a derogatory term applied to the peripheral expansion of urban boundaries associated with irresponsible or poorly planned development.According to critics,areas affected by urban sprawl are often unsightly and characterized by a homogenous landscape of housing subdivisions,office parks,and corner strip malls without character or green space.
Before the United States invaded Iraq,about 5.5 people out of every thousand would die each year according to a controversial study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.After the invasion,that number rose to over 13.This study was attempting to measure
(47) The city of Mumbai,India,has 14,000,000 people,making it the second-largest city in the world,and it handles the majority of India's maritime commerce.These facts help to explain why Mumbai would be called a(n)
(37) Due to an oil boom,North Dakota has experienced the greatest population increase among all of the states in the United States in the recent past.Which demographic variable explains this?
(36) What type of nations are the largest consumers of energy worldwide?
(48) The attempt to reconcile global economic development with protections for the environment is called
(34) Under what circumstances are bystanders LESS likely to attempt to help a stranger who appears to be in danger?
(32) According to the text,which of the following is one of the four major eras of environmental activism?
(30) Which of the following facts might a sociologist be interested in if he or she is studying the problems associated with resource depletion when investigating the way our society uses paper?
(37) Which of the following is an example of a way to collect demographic data?
(30) What are resources,like coal and oil,called that CANNOT be replaced except through very slow geological processes?
(34) Ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote about his home state of Wisconsin in The Sand County Almanac.In one moving section,he described a triangular cemetery founded in the nineteenth century that,because of its unusual shape,contained a tiny patch of prairie that was unmowed and undisturbed.Every year,sometime in July,Leopold would watch a single silphium plant bloom there,the only one he found in that part of the state.He used this example to discuss the many plants native to the prairie that have been replaced by a few commercial plants grown by farmers.Leopold is observing a change in
(35) How has Earth's population changed in the past fifty years?
(37) An estimate of the land and water area that is required to produce all of the goods that an individual consumes and to assimilate all of the waste that he or she produces is called
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