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1 ptsQuestion 1

Insects

Fish

Coral

Vertebrates

According to the 2019 IPCC Special Report, whether additional warming of the atmosphere is held to 1.5˚C by 2050 or continues to 2.0˚C (or beyond), which of the following faces either complete or near extinction?

1 ptsQuestion 2

7%

13%

Dr. Naomi Oreskes discovered a shockingly small number of peer-reviewed scientific papers published in science journals between 1993 and 2003 supported the conclusion that average global temperatures are not increasing. The number of papers that reached this conclusion (average global temperatures are not increasing) out of 928 papers published over that decade were:

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25%

75%

None of the above.

1 ptsQuestion 3

second extinction event.

third extinction event.

fifth extinction event.

sixth extinction event.

None of the above.

The current loss of biodiversity worldwide is known as the:

1 ptsQuestion 4

True

False

For Peter Singer, the fact that no one else takes action on an ethical issue does not reduce the moral obligation we personally have to take action.

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1 ptsQuestion 5

True

False

For Garrett Hardin, whether we see the earth as a spaceship or as a lifeboat these are both ways of describing a situation where human beings must work out sharing schemes for limited natural resources.

1 ptsQuestion 6

27%

45%

60%

80%

87%

In 2013, entomologists in Krefeld Germany reported that between 1989 and 2013 insect populations in the area had fallen:

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