{"id":33036,"date":"2023-09-05T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/discuss-the-impacts-that-these-extreme-weather-events-are-having-on-local-populations\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T01:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T01:45:59","slug":"discuss-the-impacts-that-these-extreme-weather-events-are-having-on-local-populations","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/discuss-the-impacts-that-these-extreme-weather-events-are-having-on-local-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"discuss the impacts that these extreme weather events are having on local populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Final Paper Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">People around the world are being impacted by increasingly extreme weather events including severe droughts, fires, and flooding. This summer&#8217;s catastrophic fires in Hawaii, Greece, and Canada are just the latest examples. Thousands of people are killed, injured, displaced, and homes, crops, and businesses are destroyed. Draw on concepts from class readings and lectures to discuss the impacts that these extreme weather events are having on local populations. Who is most likely to be impacted and why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Some possible resources (not required):<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/11\/hawaii-fires-made-more-dangerous-by-climate-crisis__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!JzkTf-wDH6dwHgjnI_w0D3qsWM1YffsGkpfllBMbYW6prZsRqfx6WOhaNq9LZEuVLP0b_NgzmNsUNgtw6A$&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1692400365727000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Nh4lWf-z75hJyiFsfjDXF\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/11\/hawaii-fires-made-more-dangerous-by-climate-crisis&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/7\/25\/we-are-at-war-more-evacuations-as-greece-battles-wildfires<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/29\/world\/europe\/italy-greece-wildfires-heat.html<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/canadas-record-wildfire-season-whats-behind-it-when-will-it-end-2023-08-17\/<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui?<br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/17\/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Paper Question: People around the world are being impacted by increasingly extreme weather events including severe droughts, fires, and flooding. This summer&#8217;s catastrophic fires in Hawaii, Greece, and Canada are just the latest examples. Thousands of people are killed, injured, displaced, and homes, crops, and businesses are destroyed. Draw on concepts from class readings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[935],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}