Why does climate change effects such as Arctic melt represents an opportunity for industry.

What will be an ideal response?


The melting of Arctic sea ice represents a new carbon frontier of oil and gas reserves and 25 percent of the world’s known coal reserves. And the oil industry, with its huge sunken costs, is preparing to exploit this opportunity. President Obama’s chief of the Alaska gas pipeline project reproduced a rationale for this in reference to Alaska’s lucrative oil fields when he explained: "The wealth generated by Prudhoe Bay and the other fields on the North Slope since 1977 is worth more than all the fish ever caught, all the furs ever trapped, all the trees chopped down; throw in all the copper, whalebone, natural gas, tin, silver, platinum, and anything else ever extracted from Alaska, too."

Sociology

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In 1971, the __________ Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution which changed federal voting laws to allow 18-year-olds to vote

Fill in the blanks with correct word

Sociology

Which political point of view claims that conventional families are breaking down: divorce, single parenting, and living together without marriage are symptoms of a "me first" culture that weakens society and places children at risk?

A. conservative B. liberal C. radical right D. radical left

Sociology

The pseudopatients’ occupations included all of the following except

a. housewife. b. pediatrician. c. endodontist. d. psychologist.

Sociology

Lucy is providing long-term care help to her aging mother, while also caring for her three teenage sons at home. The term used to describe people like Lucy who care for both their parents and children is __________.

A. formal caregivers B. the sandwich generation C. laborers of love (LL) D. LTC aids

Sociology