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Assignment 4

Submission Instructions

Please use the following instructions for submitting your assignment to your Open Learning Faculty Member.

As soon as you have completed all parts of Assignment 4, name and save your document. Send it to your Open Learning Faculty Member for marking by using theAssignments link. Be sure to include your name, the course code, assignment number, and the date of submission on the title page of your assignments, so they can be easily identified, and you can get credit for all your work. Use headers in the body of your written assignments to make sure all components of your assignments are clearly identified (course code, your surname, assignment number, date [day, month, year]).

Name your assignment file as follows: course number_your surname_assignment number_date. For example, if your name is John Smith and you are submitting Assignment 4, name your file: HIST 3991_Smith_Assignment4_14June2014.

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Note

Keep a copy of your assignment before sending it to your Open Learning Faculty Member for evaluation so you can refer to your assignment during a telephone or email discussion with your Open Learning Faculty Member. Also, in the unlikely event that your assignment is lost, you will have an extra copy of your work. Many student writing manuals today suggest that students keep copies of all early drafts of their work as well, to protect themselves against mistaken charges of plagiarism.

As soon as you have submitted your assignment, and while waiting for your Open Learning Faculty Member to return it, begin the next module.

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Assignment Instructions

This assignment is worth 12% of your final grade. There are two parts, short and long answer questions related to your course readings.

Short Answer Questions

In four or five sentences, briefly answer five of the following questions. Ten marks each.

1. After reading chapters 13 (America in Black and Green), 14 (Throwaway Society) from the Steinberg textbook and Martin Melosi’s article, answer the following question:In general, how would you describe the pattern of energy consumption in the U.S. in the twentieth century?

2. After reading the article Alan Olmstead and Paul , and Matthew Eveden outline the role governments’ played in each case and explain the relative importance of volunteerism in controlling consumption patterns.

3. Based upon the documentary on “Birth of a Movement” and Chapter 15 (Shades of Green) from the Steinberg textbook, explain some of the social, cultural, and political factors that inspired the modern environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s?

4. According to Samuel P. Hays and Robert Gottlein, what are some of the main differences between the conservation movement and the modern environmental movement?

5. What argument does Steinberg make in the final chapter (In Corporations We Trust) about the current state of the American environment and the relationship with growing corporate power.

6. How was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report received by the popular media?

7. How do Matthew Nisbet and Teresa Myers’ view the different representations of climate change or global warming? How does Mark Carey? How does Spencer Weart?

Long Answer Questions

Answer two of the following questions. 250-350 words per question. Twenty-five marks each.

1. Reflecting on the types of energy resources you consume, in what ways are your consumption patterns influenced by government, private corporations, and individual choice? Based on the readings, how effective have governments and private corporations been in regulating the consumption of energy resources in the twentieth century and what factors shaped those regulations?

2. Considering the cultural, political, and economic context of the 1960s and 1970s in North America, why did events like the Santa Barbara oil spill, the publication of Silent Spring, and the Love Canal emergency help lead to emergence of a modern environmental movement that was different from the earlier conservation movement?

3. Reflecting back on previous course material on the conservation movement and the environmental movement, why has global warming captured the attention of environmentalists, policy-makers, and the broader public at the turn of the twenty-first century? How have social and biophysical factors shaped perceptions of global warming?

The following criteria will be used to evaluate your answers.

Criteria

Weighting

Your response adequately addresses/answers the question.

/10

Your response demonstrates critical and thoughtful reflection on the readings, videos, and other course materials. It synthesizes ideas from the course material and includes your own interpretation/response.

/10

Your response is written in clear, fluent, and technically correct prose. (Note that the writing is less formal than an essay, so you may write in the first person.)

/5