Goal: to understand, identify and assess what has happened around certain environmental/climate change issues since the release of an Inconvenient Truth. How have these issues/events influenced each other.
How to achieve goal: choose a topic of interest (ideas below or from documentary), create a research question and do research to find answers. Create a short presentation that you will present to us on Thursday next week. Presentation should not exceed 10 minutes (think 6/7 slides). Include a bibliography in APA style. (You will be submitting your notes).
Sample topics:
— human modification of the lithosphere for resource extraction, settlement, agriculture
— human modification of the atmosphere by changing the rate of exchange of gases (e.g., release of CO2 through burning of fossil fuels)
— human modification of the biosphere by hunting, domesticating, bio-altering, and geographically relocating other species
— storm protection of coastal cities by wetlands
— settlement patterns associated with access to natural resources (e.g., risk of farming on a flood plain in rich soils developed by river flooding)
— global climate change and ocean acidification
— deforestation
— coral reef bleaching
— depletion of ozone layer
— global atmospheric circulation patterns
— acid precipitation
— wild species at risk
— drainage patterns, agriculture, and coastal dead zones
- melting of polar regions and permafrost
Some key questions to consider:
— How much responsibility do we have for the environment?
— Should people sacrifice some of their standard of living to halt global climate change?
— Can the oceans survive human impacts?
— What are the reasons for and against limiting natural resource extraction? Do you think we should limit extraction?
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