Answer the following question after watching short video, in one 150-200 words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhYs5k6RQs

In the assigned video, Environmental historian Donald Worster discussed how technological interventions to deal with an existing environmental problem can lead to other unintended consequences. What was the example he used? What can we do to deal with the unintended consequences based on what we know today?

Multiple choice question

(1) “Wise use movement” was:

a.A new environmental movement of the 1980s that pressed for balancing ecological and

human needs

b.A political initiative to balance government budget and cut down fiscal deficits

c.An industry funded movement to weaken most of the environmental laws and regulations

in the US

d.None of the above

(2)In the early 2000’s, Canada ratified which international agreement that was later annulled?

a.The Montreal Protocol

b.The Kyoto Protocol

c.The Geneva Protocol

d.None of the above

(3)We prefer “development” over “growth” because the latter:

a. Strives for unlimited expansion of economic activities and material consumption, which is unsustainable

1. b. Causes severe environmental degradation
2. c. May increase social inequity
3. d. All of the above
5. (4) The world population grew exponentially between 1950 and 2014 from 2.5 billion to 7.2 billion. Which of the following are also examples of exponential growth?

1. Cell division by which one cell turns into two, then two into four, and so on
2. the king who doubled the number of grains he put on each successive square of a checkerboard
3. Population of Canada geese increasing at a constant rate per year
4. All of the above
5. Only (a) and (b)

(5)Tragedy of the commons can result from:

1. Lack of barriers to access the resource (it is open for all to use)
2. It is part of the global commons (not owned by any particular country)
3. The mentality that if I do not use it, someone else will (when supply is limited)
4. All of the above