Question 1: I got five questions right and five questions wrong.
Question 2:
From this quiz I learned that though there are issues in the world, it is not as bad as it is conveyed through the news and numerous studies that caused me to have a preconceived notion that the rest of the world is struggling and their living conditions are getting worse. For example, in the question where they ask you how old you think the average life expectancy is in the world, I knew that in countries like America it must be high, but I ignorantly believed that in other developing countries people are dying much younger due to malnutrition or other issues that come with extreme poverty. However, this quiz reveals that the everyone in the world is living longer, being educated, getting out of poverty, and overall improving their quality of life.
Don’t Panic: The Truth about Population
Question 1:
In “Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt” (assignment #3c) and “Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt” the people in Bangladesh are displayed in a poor and unfortunate light. Portraying them as “a large population of poor, young women willing to work from dawn to dusk for a few pennies an hour”(19) and people whose lives are getting worse and worse because they are at the mercy of the garment industry. Though it may be true that many women …show more content…
“The recent U.S. contribution to annual global emissions is about 18% but the U.S. contribution to cumulative global emissions over the last century is much higher.”(p.48) and China is responsible for 27.6 percent of the world's annual global emissions. China and United States also have the highest GDPs. In our readings it is known that the wealthier people use the most energy and resources, so I choose The United States and China because their economies grew rapidly so it would be clear if GDP affects the energy use of a
Question 2:
From this quiz I learned that though there are issues in the world, it is not as bad as it is conveyed through the news and numerous studies that caused me to have a preconceived notion that the rest of the world is struggling and their living conditions are getting worse. For example, in the question where they ask you how old you think the average life expectancy is in the world, I knew that in countries like America it must be high, but I ignorantly believed that in other developing countries people are dying much younger due to malnutrition or other issues that come with extreme poverty. However, this quiz reveals that the everyone in the world is living longer, being educated, getting out of poverty, and overall improving their quality of life.
Don’t Panic: The Truth about Population
Question 1:
In “Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt” (assignment #3c) and “Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt” the people in Bangladesh are displayed in a poor and unfortunate light. Portraying them as “a large population of poor, young women willing to work from dawn to dusk for a few pennies an hour”(19) and people whose lives are getting worse and worse because they are at the mercy of the garment industry. Though it may be true that many women …show more content…
“The recent U.S. contribution to annual global emissions is about 18% but the U.S. contribution to cumulative global emissions over the last century is much higher.”(p.48) and China is responsible for 27.6 percent of the world's annual global emissions. China and United States also have the highest GDPs. In our readings it is known that the wealthier people use the most energy and resources, so I choose The United States and China because their economies grew rapidly so it would be clear if GDP affects the energy use of a