Overview
The following instructions are for your Brightspace post that is due on Sept. 11 at 11:59pm. No peer comment is required for this discussion thread, but for extra credit, you can make a peer comment (due the following day, Sept. 12, at 11:59pm).
**Instructions on the peer comment are at the bottom.**
1 Select one contemporary rich country, one poor country and one middle income country as measured by per capita income today. (These can be the same ones you selected for parts one and two, but you are encouraged to choose others, so that we have a diverse selection in the class overall.)
2 Using the animations, trace the indicators for economic development, carbon emissions and health in these three countries over time.
3 Write up a 150-300 word posting to be pasted into the Brightspace forum for this module on your section website.
◦ Describe the historical patterns you have found in each of the three countries.
◦ Do the trends in your three countries reflect the patterns of environmental outcomes depicted in slides 44-46 of this session’s powerpoint? If not, how do they differ?
◦ How would you go about explaining the patterns?
◦ How do perceptions of climate change as a threat vary among these countries? What might explain the variations?
4 As a supplement to your Brightspace posting, you are encouraged to attach a screenshot or two from Gapminder of the graphs you have used. You can print the images/charts/graphs directly from the site to a pdf file. Or, using your laptop, you can save a screenshot of the page as a Word Doc or PDF file. On a PC, take a screen shot of the full screen with the graphic by pressing the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard. Then, open Microsoft Word and paste (“Ctrl” + “V”) the captured screenshot. Save the file. On a Mac, press “Command” + “Shift” + “3” at the same time. This will take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on your desktop.
Extra credit peer comment posting(optional, 100 – 200 words): comment via reply on one of the other Gapminder postings. Do the results confirm yours? Do they show any divergences or variations of interest? Any general reflections in light of the ethics of climate mitigation? This is due by 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 12.