Exam 17: Sociology and the Environment

What was explored in Silent Spring?

Marcus drives his family crazy-going around and turning off lights,lecturing his brother on recycling,and instructing his mother on how to use less water and hydro when doing laundry.But when he is with his friends,Marcus discusses his ongoing purchases of computer monitors,keyboards,and the 54-inch LED television that replaces his 42-inch LCD purchase of last year.What is Marcus demonstrating?

Marketable pollution permits (cap-and-trade)would allow countries the flexibility to address and control environmentally harmful emissions on their own terms.Discuss how this process would work,utilizing examples for elaboration.

What precipitated the first wave of the modern environmental movement?

Which of the following expends great energy to discredit scientific research on climate change?

In the tragedy of the commons,what does "the commons" refer to?

Over the last few decades,organic food has become more popular.Why?

How does the way we treat the environment affect various groups in society,especially those who are not privileged or powerful? Explain fully with examples.

For a class presentation Tatiana decided to stage an awards ceremony,honouring the companies that put more time,energy,and money into the promotion of their ecofriendly image than they do at actually being environmentally friendly.What name would she give to the awards?

Which of the following was responsible for the establishing of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Which of the following has the lowest royalty rate on industry oil revenue?

Discuss the three waves of the current environmental movement.What was the focus of each one? Should it arise,what do you think will be the focus of a fourth wave? Explain your answer.

What evidence did the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change use to support its conclusion that there has been a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas since the time of industrialization?

Why was Agent Orange (a cancer-causing chemical)sprayed in areas of Northern Ontario in the mid-1960s?

In the 1970s,scientists predicted that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)could rapidly destroy the Earth's ozone layer,but it wasn't until 1987 that CFCs were banned.

Pollution is considered to be an externality since it occurs outside the pollution-producing plant.

Which thesis predicts that the level of environmental concern in a population follows the levels of prosperity and hardship being experienced by the citizens?

What environmental issue was the focus of the third wave of environmentalism?

Nonrenewable resources are infinite in quantity and therefore nonexhaustible.

Jeremy asked Ahmad,an international student from Saudi Arabia,what it was like to grow up in a rich country with the largest crude oil reserves in the world.Ahmad explained that his fellow citizens were being impoverished-their per capita income was almost $30,000 in the early 1980s and was currently less than $7,000.Which of the following would explain this phenomenon?