Chapter 14 Practice Quiz

The Environment
. What is the term used in the textbook to describe non-sociological attempts to individualize responsibility for the Walkerton water contamination issue rather than addressing systemic faults and causes?

. About 90 per cent of patents for genetically modified plants are owned by which company?

. Which term could be used to describe the scientists employed by the Scientific Division of the US Tobacco Institute who published studies downplaying the dangers of second-hand smoke?

. Which term describes the study of public health, specifically the incidence and spread of diseases in a population?

. The Monsanto plant in Anniston, Alabama produced a dangerous chemical compound that endangered the health of its workers—most of whom were black—and contaminated the water in the predominantly African-American neighbourhoods surrounding the plant. What term can be applied to Monsanto's actions?

. What percentage of the people of Walkerton, Ontario became ill from E. coli exposure in 2000?

. If a mining company responds to concerns about the safety of white asbestos by stating that it is much safer than blue asbestos, this is an example of what kind of logical fallacy?

. What was the cause of Simon Fobister's death who was chief of the Grassy Narrows First Nation?

. What did the University of British Columbia researchers find in the 10 Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in BC?

. Which influential Canadian sociologist studied the Halifax explosion of 1917?

. The case of Dr John O'Connor spoke about the health impacts of Fort McMurray's oil sands project on the Aboriginal community of Fort Chipewyan.

. Asbestos is acknowledged to be a cause of lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis.

. Even though Anastasia Shkilnyk accomplished so much for the Indigenous community in Grassy Narrows, there is little Indigenous voice in her work.

. Thetford Mines is the world's largest producer of asbestos.

. Canada became a major producer of asbestos in 1879 when it was first mined in British Columbia.

. The "China price" refers to China's competitive advantage in the manufacture and assembly of goods due to its exploitation of workers and the environment.

. University researchers are generally not quite reliable when it comes to environmental issues.

. The rise of piracy off the Somali coast is primarily due to the decline of ocean food resources as a result of global warming.

. Grant (2015) found that Canada no longer imports any products that contain asbestos.

. According to Marx, the worse capitalism got, with the shrinking of the bourgeoisie and the growth of the proletariat to include a falling middle class, the more likely capitalism would collapse altogether, ushering in the communist revolution.

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