Both sets cover topics from our third set of chapters on climate change, soil erosion, agriculture, and biodiversity loss. Your response paper must be double-spaced, 12-point font. If you add images and tables, they should be at the end of the paper as an appendix. Please include: your name, class name, class assignment number, along with the references used and headers.
Both sets cover topics from our third set of chapters on climate change, soil erosion, agriculture, and biodiversity loss. Your response paper must be double-spaced, 12-point font. If you add images and tables, they should be at the end of the paper as an appendix. Please include: your name, class name, class assignment number, along with the references used and headers.. GEOG 1140: Humans Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Fall 2019,
3 rd Position Paper Assignment—At Home Research, 25 points
Topic Set #1 with news articles and Topic Set #2 with videos to watch to write at least a FULL two-page position paper. Both sets cover topics from our third set of chapters on climate change, soil erosion, agriculture, and biodiversity loss. Your response paper must be double-spaced, 12-point font. If you add images and tables, they should be at the end of the paper as an appendix. Please include: your name, class name, class assignment number, along with the references used and headers.
Topic Set #1: News Articles: (2page minimum)
Loss of billions of birds in 50 years (do both written article and short video clip with it): Is this alarming to you? Would you like to see a world with few birds? What overall environmental impacts would that have?
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/u-s-canada-have-lost-3-billion-birds-scientists-sayncna1055961
Was Venus once like Earth before a massive release of carbon dioxide that extinguished life?: Could this happen to the Earth? If not, could the Earth still get too hot for life here?
New bee-friendly fungicide for crops: Is this a safe way to use chemicals in the environment? Or should we stop dumping ever more chemicals into the environment and on our crops?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bees-will-be-used-deliver-new-organic-pesticidewill-it-n1054416
Topic Set #2: Video Shorts: (2page minimum)
Climate change protests (do all three video shorts in the written article and read it too): What specifically are they protesting? Do you think their actions are effective?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/global-climate-strike-protests-expected-draw-millionsn1056231
Colorado’s climate change effects: What are the effects they are talking about? Are they all bad? Will changes in Colorado have any effects on New Mexico?
Bill Nye the Science Guy on climate change deniers: do you find his arguments compelling or not, and why? Is he a good spokesperson for the climate change scientists? Is it getting personal?
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/video/bill-nye-takes-on-climate-change-deniers-66294341862
