Part One
“NASA: Global climate change” https://climate.nasa.gov/
Recommended: IPCC, “Special Report: Summary for Policymakers” (summer 2021) https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
“What should you say to a climate change skeptic?”
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-arguments-20170818-htmlstory.html
“Meet the evangelical Christian persuading believers that climate change is real”
https://www.newstatesman.com/2017/06/meet-evangelical-christian-persuading-believers-climate-change-real
Part Two
“Rash of suicides in India—Cotton farmers without hope” (video, 6:10 minutes)
https://www.dw.com/en/rash-of-suicides-in-india-cotton-farmers-without-hope/av-17200458
“Australia: Suicides among farmers” (video, 6:45 minutes)
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-suicide-among-farmers/av-47117757
“Trading down: How unfair trade hurts farmers [in poor countries]”
https://fairworldproject.org/trading-down-how-unfair-trade-hurts-farmers/
“Agribusiness is devastating to family farmers, rural communities, and the environment”
https://www.actionaidusa.org/work/agribusiness-family-farmers/
Part Three
“Biodiversity: Food ‘key driver’ of accelerating death of wildlife”
https://www.dw.com/en/farming-food-biodiversity-extinction-food-waste-health-meat-plant-based/a-56416006
Part Four
“The sugar that permeates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/sugar-slave-trade-slavery.html
GPCC, chapter 7, “Environment and consumption”
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:
What are the key indicators of global climate change, according to NASA? And what evidence should be pointed out to climate skeptics?
How does global climate change reflect “negative externalities” and “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox” (as defined in GPCC)?
What is the most common form of hunger? Why is there hunger in the world? How does hunger reflect "negative externalities" and "Karl Polanyi's Paradox"?
How do food exports from wealthy countries to poor countries hurt medium and small farmers in poor countries? What problems in general do corporate agriculture cause? What are the present-day causes of suicide among family farmers?
What problems does “Farming and biodiversity” address? What are its recommendations? How are these related to the “clean farming revolution” (Week 12)?
Describe either “the case of sugar” or “the story of beef” (in GPCC).