Reference no: EM133540247

Assignment:

Reading:

Ghosh, Amitav. 2021. "Vulnerabilities." The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. University of Chicago Press: 133-145.

Question:

1. The main claim behind Ghosh's chapter, "Vulnerabilities" is that "inequities [in wealth, resources, exposure to violence, and infrastructure],rather than GDP or per capita income, that will determine how countries are impacted by the planetary crisis" (138). What reason does Ghosh give for this claim? (Include citation)

2. Give two forms of evidence for this reason and claim from the source with context that explains how that evidence is proof for the reason/claim specifically. (Include citation)

3. What does Ghosh mean when he says that "climate change events and the Covid-19 pandemic are cognate phenomena"?

Options:

a. "The value of prepared-ness, at a personal as well as a collective level, was once again vindicated."

b. "The paths taken by the pandemic suggest that the planetary crisis too will unfold in surprising and counterintuitive ways"

c. The two types of disaster can be understood cognitively.

d. "Both are effects of the ever-increasing acceleration in production, extraction, consumption, and environmental degradation that has occurred in the decades after the Second World War, and especially after 1989"

e. The two types of disaster are identical as global forces with the same sources and impacts

Reading:

Ghosh, Amitav. 2021. "Vulnerabilities." The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. University of Chicago Press: 133-145.