Question One
Part A. Please read the July 20, 2015, New Yorker article by Kathryn Schulz entitled “The Really Big One” – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one. Please summarize the article and describe how this might effect your decision to buy a house west of I-5 in the Pacific Northwest.
Part B. Please detail your personal strategy for dealing with two of the following environmental problems: (a) indoor air pollution, (b) outdoor air pollution, (c) acid deposition, (d) ozone depletion.
Question Two
Part A. Please detail three consumption patterns related to your personal lifestyle that directly add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and how you could reduce your footprint. Please also detail why you think global warming is more of an environmental issue or a political issue.
Part B. Some scientists have suggested that injecting huge quantities of sulfate particles into the stratosphere could combat global warming by reflecting incoming sunlight back into space. Please detail advantages and disadvantages of this type of geoengineering.
