The overarching global concerns of climate change

Reflection on Reading and Video Essay

the article:

https://truthout.org/articles/the-last-time-there-was-this-much-co2-trees-grew-at-the-south-pole/

the video:

Week n 1 Writing Prompts

Reflection Paper Writing Prompts

With Week n 1, we begin with the overarching global concerns of climate change (or climate disruption) and how changing sea levels, disruptive temperatures, species extinctions, declining resources and the multitude of ensuing challenges, will continue to pose serious questions with regards to how we live on the planet. These are environmental problems which will eventually affect all populations and their ability to secure food and shelter.

In the short video from 2012, VOX researcher/writer, David Roberts, outlines basic climate change facts. And, in his Climate Disruption Dispatches, author & award-winning investigative journalist, Dahr Jamail (born and raised in Houston, Texas & graduate of Texas A&M University), offers us his monthly Climate Disruption Dispatches in which he details with a certain urgency, the state of the planet.

 (1) What, if anything, did you learn from the David Roberts video? Did you already have a clear understanding of the problems?

(2) Are you concerned about the Agricultural sector and Food Security? Why?

(3) According to Dahr Jamail, what is happening to the permafrost? And to “long-frozen radiation”?

(4) Are global carbon emissions on the rise and does this concern you? Why?

(5) What efforts do you think are necessary? And who should be involved?