Water

Water​

reading review​

Multiple Choice

According to Barlow, water is not a recognized human right

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Select

What are the main factors causing water insecurity?

• The world is running out of freshwater.

• Every day more and more people are living without access to clean water.

• A powerful corporate water cartel has emerged to seize control of every aspect of water for its own profit.

• The water cycle is a closed system and water is a renewable resource.

Multiple Select

Why are we running out of fresh water?

• climate change

• pollution

• population growth

Multiple Choice

Virtual water is water used in the production of crops or manufactured goods that are then exported.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

What are the solutions to this crisis?

• dams and diversions

• desalination plants

• our current politicians

• none of the above

Global Water Crisis

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Multiple Choice

The problem of water is difficult to address because of

• water's complexity and mobility

• differing perceptions of water

• fragmented administration for addressing internationally and nationally

• all of the above

Multiple Select

The blindness to water scarcity refers to

• inability to countries to appreciate water is finite

• ignorance to rapidly increasing water stress due to population

• issues related to vertical and horizontal input

• Both A & B

Multiple Choice

Overexploitation of local water with pumping aquifers in excess in contrast to limited recharge rates is reflected through

• Reducing water table

• Higher pumping costs

• Land subsidence

• Intrusion of salt water along coasts

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

The barriers to resolving water problems is attributed to (e.g., Mar Del Plata Action Plan):

• Too general recommendations and vague targets

• Inability to perceive economic challenges/ perspectives of different countries

• No time-frame for implementation

• Inability to comprehend different problems for different climatic regions

• All the above

Multiple Choice

The author recommended that following necessary conditions should be fulfilled to resolve complex water challenge: 

• Awareness of problem

• Responsible administrative body to collate resources and provide leadership

• Technology change

• Both A & B

Racial Coastal Formation

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Multiple Choice

Colorblind adaptation planning refers to vulnerability mitigation and adaptation planning projects that altogether overlook racial inequality—or worse, dismiss its systemic causes and explain away racial inequality by attributing racial disparities to non-racial causes

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Climate Gap refers to?

• The gap between attention given to climate change and concerns of vulnerable communities

• Examination of the intersection of racial inequality and vulnerability to sea-level rise

• Sea-level rise vulnerability necessitates recognition with uneven racial development

• All the above

Multiple Select

Geechee residents expressed concerns that the community will transition to a majority of white residents due to

• Interests in low-cost coastal property and high demand

• Property transfer from Geechee heirs to non-traditional people

• Delinquent property tax auctions

• Social Security Check

Multiple Choice

Climate change adaptation is an opportunity for social reform, for the questioning of values that drive inequalities in development and our unsustainable relationship with the environment

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Value of incorporating experiential knowledge in climate change 

• Enables and legitimates more diverse communities of action

• Resists the extraction of climate change from its complex socio-natural entanglements that have place-based meaning

• Provides culturally specific understandings of what is at stake with climate justice

• All of above

Resurging th​rough Kishiichiwan

Multiple Choice

According to Sarah Hunt, colonialscapes:

• can take various forms, including visual forms such as maps and photographs of Indigenous peoples, and textual forms such as laws.

• are meant to invisibilize and erase Indigenous political, legal, and economic landscapes and,  over time,  naturalize settler colonial geographies of domination inscribed in the colonial state’s legal frameworks.

• become naturalized as the only spaces in which Indigenous governance, albeit reconfigured through settler governance, can exist.

• All of the above

Multiple Select

The water crisis in Indigenous communities is framed by the media and governments as:

• A failure by the government due to ongoing structural colonial legacies 

• Indigneous peoples’ failure to regulate themselves and cope with the pillars of liberal life

• The  Canadian  government's ongoing disinvestment in infrastructure within Indigenous communities

• Colonial neoliberal narratives of Indigenous communities’ individual failings

Mercury Poisoning in the Grassy Narrows

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Multiple Choice

The four factors of environmental injustice according to Ilyniak are:

• capitalism, distribution of environmental hazards, misrecognition, and procedural injustice

• historical processes, distribution of environmental hazards, misrecognition, and procedural injustice

• historical processes, distribution of environmental hazards, misrecognition, and distributive injustice

• historical processes, expansion, misrecognition, and procedural injustice

Multiple Choice

Ways in which the colonizing project shows up in Canada to maintain a pattern of maldistribution of environmental hazards:

• A lack of regulations to protect communities like Grassy Narrows

• Medical concern regarding isolate, reserve communities is absent and not dealt with seriously 

• The colonized reading and interpretations of treaties by governments 

• All of the above

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Multiple Select

Ingrid Waldron's main
 objective in this book is
 to


• help
 redefine
 parameters
 of
 critique
 around
 the
 environmental justice
 movement 
in
 Nova 
Scotia 
and 
Canada 

• address concerns
 such
 issues
 as
 conservation,
 wildlife
 protection,
 and sustainable 
development

• discuss
 how
 environmental
 racism
 manifests
 within white
 supremacy,
 settler
 colonialism,
 state-sanctioned
 racial and
 gendered
 forms
 of
 violence,
 patriarchy,
 neoliberalism,
 and
 racial capitalism

• address
 the
 many
 limitations
 inherent
 to the 
environmental 
justice
 lens 
in
 Nova 
Scotia 
and 
Canada


Multiple Choice

"Environmental
 racism
 is
 an issue 
of
 class
 and 
not 
race"

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Razack's "race to innocence" is

• our
 consideration of
 our
 own complicity
 in
 the
 subordination
 of
 others

• our
 failure
 to
 consider
 our
 own complicity
 in
 the
 subordination
 of
 others

• our acknowledgement
 of
 which
 requires
 “evidence”
 and
 “proof”

• our consideration with
 respect
 to
 class,
 income,
 poverty,
 gender only

Multiple Select

Critical Environmental Justice Framework and Waldron agree that...

• we
 need to
 focus more on how
 multiple social
 identities
 intersect
 to
 produce
 environmental
 injustices

• we must
 move past addressing
 social
 inequality
 and
 power and
 build 
an
 "unapologetically 
anti-authoritarian 
agenda"

• marginalized
 populations
 are exposed
 to
 environmental
 threats
 because they are considered (by the state) as inferior (lacking
 in
 value) and
 expendable
 and
 disposable

• we must 

examine 
environmental justice 
struggles 
at 
the 
local,
regional, 
national, 
or
transnational 
scales, 
and
 these 
struggles 
on
multiple 
scales

Multiple Choice

"Environmental
 racism,
 like
 many
 other
 forms
 of
 state-sanctioned
 violence, drives
racial
 capitalism"

• TRUE

• FALSE