Environmental Justice and Water Crisis

Environmental Justice and Water Crisis essay assignment

Environmental Justice and Water Crisis essay assignment

Please define environmental justice and give me an example (explain how your example relates to environmental justice).

7 points   

QUESTION 2

1. Please explain what the concept of adaptation means and how it relates to communities like Paradise, CA, seeking to build back after a major wildfire.

7 points   

QUESTION 3

1. Please explain what caused the Flint, MI water crisis and what the water crisis was (basically, what made it a crisis?).

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QUESTION 4

1. If wildfires are a natural disaster, can you explain how they are related to climate change?  What effect does climate change have on wildfires and their consequences?

7 points   

QUESTION 5

1. What made the Flint, MI water crisis a matter of environmental racism and classism?  In what ways were the residents of Flint already vulnerable and politically marginalized?

7 points   

QUESTION 6

Please think through and plan your answer and write me about 3-4 paragraphs in response: 

(6) Please tell me what you know about the Deepwater Horizon Blowout, its causes and aftermath.  In other words, what was it, what happened, who was involved, how did it happen, what were the effects, who and what were affected, and how does all of this relate to our course?

20 points   

QUESTION 7

1. The Deepwater Horizon disaster, in addition to being an environmental catastrophe, presented an important labor issue because the workers on board the rig were being pushed to compromise safety standards and protocols and their own safety in the interest of profit for the companies involved.

True

False

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QUESTION 8

1. The Camp Fire that swept through Paradise, CA was as devastating as it was because it occurred in a place that had never experienced wildfires or wildfire risk in the past.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 9

1. An example of “risk society” is the fact that depletion of petroleum fuel reserves still in the earth means that we now engage in more and more extreme forms of fuel extraction like hydraulic fracturing and ultra deep offshore oil well mining, and become comfortable with the increased risks to workers and neighbors in these operations.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 10

1. The energy company Halliburton was the owner of the Macondo oil well, the area of seafloor surrounding the wellhead, and also of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig at the time of the explosion.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 11

1. One oil industry analyst was quoted as saying that drilling as deep as the Deepwater Horizon was attempting to do is uncharted territory and that the exploration into such depths contains similar unknowns and risks as exploration into outer space.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 12

1. Mountain Top Removal (MTR) coal mining and hydraulic fracturing are methods of extracting fossil fuels in the US that cause large scale habitat destruction and serious health hazards in the environs of their operations.

True

False

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QUESTION 13

1. The concept of planning, preparation, and adaptation requires us to shift our mindset as a society so that we get comfortable with planning for potential disasters even if it feels negative, valuing the preparation for potential disasters, even if they don’t end up occurring, and adapting after disasters so that we are better prepared for future disasters rather than just building back exactly as we had before.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 14

1. Although the effects of lead poisoning on children during the Flint, MI water crisis were significant, because the Flint and Michigan government took responsibility for the crisis immediately and acted so quickly and decisively to correct the mistakes and provide restitution for those who were harmed, most of the children who suffered lead exposure now no longer experience any negative effects from that exposure.

True

False

3 points   

QUESTION 15

1. Which of the following is a threat to biodiversity?

	A.	Large oil spills that cause crude oil and tar balls to collect in the water and on beaches and threaten sea life, water birds, and crustaceans and other small animals.
	B.	Large hurricanes and storms that cause large-scale animal and plant-life death and habitat destruction from salt water contamination, flooding, and wind damage.
	C.	The use of chemical dispersants after oil spills that damage and destroy sea birds, fish, and aquatic animals like sea turtles.
	D.	All of the above

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QUESTION 16

1. Which of the following was a likely effect of the Flint, MI water crisis?

	A.	An outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease that contributed to hospitalizations and even death
	B.	Lead poisoning in a large number of Flint, MI children
	C.	Both of the above
	D.	None of the above

3 points