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Assignment - Watch the documentary "Before the Flood" and answer the following questions.

1. What are the three stages of the story told through the painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?

2. Who is Ban Ki-moon?

3. When DiCaprio went to the natural history museum, he studied extinct animals. List two animals that he mentions having studied.

4. Most of our economy is based on which two major fossil fuels?

5. While riding in the helicopter, to what does DiCaprio compare the oil mining landscape?

6. The first time DiCaprio heard about global warming, who was it that told him that it was the most important issue of our time?

7. A key point was made about the arctic; "The arctic is like the _____________________________ for the northern hemisphere. If it goes away...it will make floods and droughts more catastrophic..."

8. "If climate stays at this temperature that it's been for the last decade, Greenland is ___________________________________"

9. When water is no longer stored in ice, what will happen to sea levels?

10. Name a politician who denies the impact of climate change.

11. Why does the movie suggest so many politicians deny climate change?

12. How long have scientists known about the problem of global warming?

13. What two energy forms is China now prioritizing over coal?

14. What percentage of households in India do not have access to electricity?

15. Electricity consumed by one American at home is equivalent to __________ citizens of India.

16. How many people depend on fish for their daily source of protein?

17. Like oceans, _______________ absorb carbon dioxide from out atmosphere... until we clear cut them and light them on fire.

18. Rainforests are being destroyed in order to plant trees to produce _________________________ which is one of the cheapest oils in the world.

19. What is one effective way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions simply by changing our diet?

20. Elon Musk says that a very crucial component to motivate people to make the switch to renewable energy is a tax on ______________.

21. The UN Climate conference of 2015 took place in what city?

22. What are two things that the film suggests will happen if the climate of our world becomes 4 degrees warmer?

23. Which nation has committed to becoming the first fossil fuel free nation?

24. What was one concern Obama said he has about the future if we don't take action?

25. Piers Sellers from NASA created a model simulation of the Earth that shows what will happen to Europe?

26. What was one thing that Pope Francis called for?

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