Your last Current Event Essay will be on one of the real-life impacts of Climate Change. As always, this is just the prompt. The submission is due Thursday of Week 9 at 11:59PM.
Since 2014 or earlier there has been a steady flow of news stories about the impact of sea leave rise on island communities in the Pacific and more recently on coastal communities around the world, including in America. The uneven impacts of climate change forms the basis of the concept of climate justice. This topic is an ideal topic for you to engage with for you last Current Event Essay as it allows you to link to many of the topics we have covered thought out the course so far, including some of the more complicated issues such as discourse and environmental justice. It will also help you think about some of the topics coming up in our last few weeks. For example, do you remember what the film “Before the Flood” said about the predicted impact of Climate Change on coral reefs?
Below is a set of articles for you to draw on and introduced the concept of climate justice. In addition to these articles, feel free to do your own research on the topic. Remember to include at least one additional academic source.
In response to these articles and drawing on content we have covered throughout the course, consider the following questions in your response:
For this essay, you will write a 750-1000 word response to the questions.
Remember: we are looking to see you demonstrate that you are thinking critically about what you have learned throughout the course. This means that you can and should be looking for discrepancies between various approaches and authors and questioning the material. You should be supporting your ideas and questions with credible sources (peer-reviewed, published in a scientific venue, available of google scholar). For this essay, in particular, we will be looking SYNTHESIS, to see that you can bring together and ideas from across the course and from other sources as well.
Make sure to:
Avoid common mistakes:
Good luck on your last Current Event Essay!
Links
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/29/climate-change-in-the-u-s-could-help-the-rich-and-hurt-the-poor/?utm_term=.d2ea3f9f302f
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/11/climate-change-refugees-grapple-with-effects-of-rising-seas.html
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/us/resettling-the-first-american-climate-refugees.html?_r=0
[4] http://www.theroot.com/color-of-climate-is-climate-change-gentrifying-miami-s-1797516942
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/mar/17/pacific-islands-losing-way-of-life-to-climate-change-in-pictures
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/asia/climate-change-kiribati.html