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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW

 

Session 13

Climate Change

Class Assignment:

Climate Change: Carbon's Casualties

Homework:

Read three of the cases from the New York Times's Carbon Casualities Series. Then answer the questions below.

  1. How has global climate change affected the local climate and geography of the regions discussed in tese articles?
  2. How have these changes affected the people living in each region?
  3. How have the people tried to adapt to climate change’s effects?
  4. Which images were selected in these three cases to have an impact on the reader. What do these images show?
  5. Which image is the most powerful? Describe it and discuss what makes it an effective image.
  6. Why is this series and thes cases important for the world to know?