Because of the potential harmful effects of climate change,
a. policy makers should ignore climate change.
b. policy makers should visit communities most effected by global warming.
c. policy makers must reassess their basic assumptions about climate change and make significant changes.
d. collaboration for solutions should be avoided since most cultures creating climate changes are unaffected by such changes.
e. anthropologists should not intervene to prevent danger to themselves.
ANS: C
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What will be an ideal response?
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