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The 11th Hour Film Questions
Directions: Answer the questions while watching the film.
- Why is it misleading when we say “save the environment”?
- What happens when we destroy nature?
- How are ecological disasters depicted by the media?
- If time was one calendar year, when would humans have been born?
- What allowed humans to take over the world and throw us out of balance with nature?
- What was the great rupture with nature that occurred in the 1800s and 1900s?
- We used to live on current sunlight. Meaning that the amount of sunlight that fell on the earth in a year was the maximum amount of energy we could use. During this our population never exceeded 1 billion.
Human population : Pre 1800s - 1 billion, ______- 2 billion, ______- 3 billion
- Why has there been such a large growth in population?
- How many people can Earth maintain with current sunlight?
- How much money does the US borrow every year?
- How much money do we use every day for oil imports?
- What effect does the melting of the icecaps have?
- How much have humans increased carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere by?
- What does the tipping point mean?
- What is the tipping point?
- What is the current estimate for Earth’s temperature change?
- How much sea ice has already melted?
- How long will it be before the Arctic is ice free?
- As sea levels rise, millions of people will be displaced as the waters swallow their homes. In the US ______million, China ______million, Netherlands _____ million, and another ______million in Bangladesh. That is 242 million people because of a 10m rise in sea levels. The United Nations estimates that there will be at least 150 million environmental refugees by the turn of the century.
- What creates ocean dead zones?
- In half a century we have lost _____% of the big fish in the sea.
- What communities are most affected by water pollution and dumping? Why?
- How much of the original U.S. forest is gone?
- What happens when trees are removed from rainforests?
- WangariMaathai warns the citizens in her country not to cut down trees on the mountains because without the trees the rivers will stop flowing, the rains will become ______, the crops will fail, and you will die.
- How much soil in the world is classified as “very degraded”?
- How much water can one tree hold and filter into the aquifer? What happens without them?
- The last time the ocean waters stagnated it caused the Permian mass extinction, and ______% of all the species on earth went extinct.
- What is the “greatest weapon of mass destruction”?
- How much would it cost us a year to do what nature does for us already? (Such as pollination)
- For every truckload of products we produce, there are ______truckloads of waste.
- If we don’t change, how much life may we lose?
- What percent of all species, that have ever existed, are now extinct?
- Extinction is a natural process, it is necessary for evolution and adaptation as the world changes. The problem is the rate at which we are causing it. We have caused ______species to go extinct. Why is this a problem?
- Why are we at this crisis point?
- How many times stronger is spider silk than steel? What do you think we could use it for?
- What does “Green Building” make possible? How much energy could you save?
- What does it mean, to you, to be human in the 21st Century?
- What type of energy has been developed to a point that it competes with fossil fuels?
- Is nature a resource that is endlessly available?