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The Global Economy In The 21st Century Week 11 Journal Climate Change

For this week’s reflection, we turn our attention to climate change.

Write a Journal Reflection 500-600 words long answering two questions (250-300 words each answer):

  1. Does climate change matter before all else? Why or why not?
  2. What do you think nations, governments, and every day people can do about climate change?

Please remember that all submitted posts: essays, discussion forum and journal reflection posts you can use in your Final Research paper. Please save all your posts.

Readings

Review the Week 10 readings:

James Boyce. Economics for People and the Planet : Inequality in the Era of Climate Change. Anthem Press, 2019. EBSCOhost

  • Chapter 9: Inequality and Environment
  • Chapter 10: Clean Air for All
  • Chapter 11: Letter from Flint
  • Chapter 12: Let Them Drink Pollution?
  • Chapter 13: Letter from Delhi

Salgado-Gálvez Mario A. “Estimating the Lost Economic Production Caused by Internal Displacement Because of Disasters.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, vol. 9, no. 4, 2018, pp. 496–506., doi:10.1007/s13753-018-0190-9.

Extreme Events : Observations, Modeling, and Economics, edited by Mario Chavez, et al., John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central

Porcelli, Francesco, and Riccardo Trezzi. “The Impact of Earthquakes on Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy.” Empirical Economics, vol. 56, no. 4, Apr. 2019, pp. 1167–1206. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s00181-017-1384-5.

Kim, Hyun, and David Marcouiller. “Considering Disaster Vulnerability and Resiliency: The Case of Hurricane Effects on Tourism-Based Economies.” Annals of Regional Science, vol. 54, no. 3, May 2015, pp. 945–971. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s00168-015-0707-8.

Read the Week 11 readings:

James Boyce. Economics for People and the Planet : Inequality in the Era of Climate Change. Anthem Press, 2019. EBSCOhost

  • Chapter 14: Mapping the Environmental Riskscape
  • Chapter 15: Measuring Pollution and Inequality
  • Chapter 16: Cleaning the Air and Cooling the Planet
  • Chapter 17: Smart Climate Policy

Videos

Review the Week 10 videos.

Open this folder to view the following:

  • Climate Change and the Optimistic Future
  • What Climate Change Would Actually Look Like
  • Global Warming – A video by NASA
  • 25 Of the Most Polluted Places in The World
  • MOST BRUTAL Natural Disasters

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE OPTIMISTIC FUTURE (4:30)

    Climate Change and the Optimistic Future (4:30)Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley Earth Foundation, discusses his views on climate change and how he hopes we can leave a better planet for our children.

  • WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE (2:10)

    What Climate Change Would Actually Look Like (2:10)Data from Climate Central with artist Nickolay Lam

    • Global Warming – A video by NASA (5:48)
    • Global Warming – A video by NASA (5:48)The past decade has been the hottest ever recorded since global temperature records began 150 years ago. This video discusses the impacts of the sun’s energy, Earth’s reflectance and greenhouse gases on global warming.

    • 25 OF THE MOST POLLUTED PLACES IN THE WORLD (6:22)

      25 Of the Most Polluted Places in The World (6:22)There are many ways you can classify pollution. It can be chemical, radioactive, or simply the presence of improperly disposed waste products. While some places, like Mexico City, have a very obvious problem with their heavy smog, do not be misled. The much more serene looking Lake Karachay in Russia would have you dead within an hour of sitting on its banks due to heavy radioactive contamination.

    • MOST BRUTAL NATURAL DISASTERS (6:41)

      MOST BRUTAL Natural Disasters (6:41)This video highlights the most brutal natural disasters of 2011.