Answer the following questions in your own words ch 8
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Why is there a direct correlation between GDP growth and greenhouse gas emissions?
Which family would have higher emissions of greenhouse gases? A family of four from suburban Chicago or a family of four from rural Ecuador living as subsistence farmers? Why?
Why are total emissions for China the largest in the world, when their per capita emissions are half that of the United States?
Compare and contrast energy intensity and carbon intensity.
Which nation would be expected to invest more heavily in energy efficiency, Germany one of the world’s wealthiest economies or Tanzania a developing economy in Eastern Africa? Why?
Why do nations with lower levels of socioeconomic development have higher birth rates when compared to economically developed countries? How might this affect global population growth in the decades to come?
Even if we make the most progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero levels by 2050, will the people living in the 22nd century experience global warming and climate change? Why or why not?
What are shared economic pathways? How do they help forecast what our climate might be like later in this century?
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