How will Earth's warming climate affect humanity's ability to feed itself? Effects of Global Warming!.. Please read the text, starting on the left and then on the right, and answer the following question.
1. Remembering the previous text we read in class on Monday and the author's factual but optimistic view on the future of our world, How does this text see the future of humanity:
a. purely pessimistic
b. very optimistic
c. complicated and pessimistic
d. complicated but optimistic
Response Questions
1. What does the most widely cited mean?
2. What are the two negative effects of temperature rise in developing countries?
3. What characteristic of the human being makes Rosenzweig hopeful about the future?
4. What’s the author’s impression about Rosenzweig?
5. What is your impression about Rosenzweig? She talks about winners and losers in her scenario about the future. As someone among the winners (living in a developed country), would she still be optimistic if she were living in a developing country?
Critical Reading
1. Why has this text been written?
2. What is this text about?
3. To whom is this text addressed?
4. How is the topic written about? (formal, informal, informative, report, in academic format)
5. What other ways of writing about this topic are there?
1. What does the most widely cited mean?
2. What are the two negative effects of temperature rise in developing countries?
3. What characteristic of the human being makes Rosenzweig hopeful about the future?
4. What’s the author’s impression about Rosenzweig?
5. What is your impression about Rosenzweig? She talks about winners and losers in her scenario about the future. As someone among the winners (living in a developed country), would she still be optimistic if she were living in a developing country?
Critical Reading
1. Why has this text been written?
2. What is this text about?
3. To whom is this text addressed?
4. How is the topic written about? (formal, informal, informative, report, in academic format)
5. What other ways of writing about this topic are there?
Vocabulary Focus
If you were asked to write an essay on the effects of global warming on the world's food resources, how would you organize your essay, and how would you consider using any of these words taken from the text?
2k families: afford_[1] agriculture_[1] caution_[1] chair_[1] cheer_[1] complicate_[2] crop_[4] decrease_[1] during_[1] elder_[1] especial_[1] essential_[1] forward_[1] frequent_[1] govern_[1] hunger_[2] inform_[1] international_[2] model_[5] probable_[1] pump_[1] rain_[1] scale_[1] temperature_[1] tool_[1] trap_[2] warm_[4]
AWL families: adapt_[1] affect_[2] assume_[2] challenge_[1] cite_[1] compute_[2] consume_[1] create_[2] data_[1] decade_[1] economy_[1] energy_[1] estimate_[2] factor_[1] globe_[4] insight_[1] institute_[1] major_[1] negate_[1] panel_[1] parameter_[1] policy_[2] project_[1] research_[1] respond_[1] scenario_[1] sustain_[1] topic_[1]
OFF types: atmosphere_[1] boost_[1] carbon_[1] catastrophe_[1] climate_[6] co_[1] collaborators_[2] credible_[1] dioxide_[1] disrupts_[1] droughts_[1] enthusiasm_[1] feed_[1] greenhouse_[1] huge_[1] humanity_[1] impetus_[1] irrigation_[1] latitudes_[2] levers_[1] optimistic_[1] pessimistic_[2] planet_[2] policymakers_[1] temperate_[1] tropics_[2] vulnerable_[1] worsening_[1] zone
AWL families: adapt_[1] affect_[2] assume_[2] challenge_[1] cite_[1] compute_[2] consume_[1] create_[2] data_[1] decade_[1] economy_[1] energy_[1] estimate_[2] factor_[1] globe_[4] insight_[1] institute_[1] major_[1] negate_[1] panel_[1] parameter_[1] policy_[2] project_[1] research_[1] respond_[1] scenario_[1] sustain_[1] topic_[1]
OFF types: atmosphere_[1] boost_[1] carbon_[1] catastrophe_[1] climate_[6] co_[1] collaborators_[2] credible_[1] dioxide_[1] disrupts_[1] droughts_[1] enthusiasm_[1] feed_[1] greenhouse_[1] huge_[1] humanity_[1] impetus_[1] irrigation_[1] latitudes_[2] levers_[1] optimistic_[1] pessimistic_[2] planet_[2] policymakers_[1] temperate_[1] tropics_[2] vulnerable_[1] worsening_[1] zone
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