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Michael Meyer, who believes that declining growth rates rather than rapid population growth is today's major global population problem, makes all of the following predictions except: |
| | A) | America will over the next 45 years experience lessening immigration. |
| | B) | America's indigenous population is likely to stay relatively constant. |
| | C) | America is the only modern nation that will continue to grow. |
| | D) | America will be the wildcard in the global equation. |
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With regard to the effect of human numbers on human consumption, Danielle Nierenberg and Mia MacDonald, who do not believe that declining growth rates rather than rapid population growth is today's major global population problem, conclude that among the most political decisions societies can make are decisions about: |
| | A) | contraception and abortion. |
| | B) | equality between men and women. |
| | C) | health and education expenditures. |
| | D) | sexuality and lifestyle. |
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Terry M. Redding, who believes that the international community should attempt to curb population growth in the developing world, comments that former president Bill Clinton singled out population growth as the key issue avoided by: |
| | A) | participants of the 2005 World Summit. |
| | B) | candidates in the 2008 presidential election. |
| | C) | Africa's sub-Saharan politicos. |
| | D) | the American media. |
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According to Steven W. Mosher, who does not believe that the international community should attempt to curb population growth in the developing world, thinks that in the "cold war against population," population was an important element of: |
| | A) | human rights. |
| | B) | national power. |
| | C) | economic growth. |
| | D) | environmental health. |
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By 2025, according to Pete Engardio and Carol Matlack, the percentage of individuals aged 15 to 64 is expected to have decreased the most in: |
| | A) | Spain. |
| | B) | Denmark. |
| | C) | the United States. |
| | D) | Japan. |
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The Rand Corporation, which does not believe that global aging in the developed world is a major problem, concludes that critical to any solution for declining fertility rates and aging populations are policies that: |
| | A) | encourage older workers to stay in the workforce longer. |
| | B) | provide better healthcare and benefits for older workers. |
| | C) | remove workplace and career impediments to childrearing. |
| | D) | reward families for having at least two children. |
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According to Divya Abhat et al., who believe that global urbanization leads primarily to undesirable consequences, internal migrants flock to the cities for all of the following reasons except that cities offer: |
| | A) | hope for a better job. |
| | B) | better healthcare. |
| | C) | better housing. |
| | D) | increased educational opportunities. |
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UNFPA, which does not believe that global urbanization leads primarily to undesirable consequences, contends that inadequate urban management, often based on inaccurate perceptions and information, can turn opportunity into: |
| | A) | disaster. |
| | B) | prolonged anticipation. |
| | C) | wasted time and money. |
| | D) | disappointment. |
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Bailey, who believes that environmentalists overstate their case, likens environmentalism to: |
| | A) | an ideology like Marxism. |
| | B) | a religion like Christianity. |
| | C) | a movement like civil rights. |
| | D) | a science like astronomy. |
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According to David Pimentel, who does not believe that environmentalists overstate their case, Bjorn Lomborg rejects the World Health Organization (WHO) data that reports that the largest number and proportion of malnourished people exist now than ever before in history because the data: |
| | A) | are wrong. |
| | B) | derive from questionable research methods. |
| | C) | do not support his basic thesis. |
| | D) | have not been confirmed by independent scientists. |
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Nansen G. Saleri, who believes that the world should continue to rely on oil as the major source of energy, identifies "the most vocal voice among the 'neo-peak-oil' club" as: |
| | A) | Lester Brown. |
| | B) | M. King Hubbert. |
| | C) | Matthew Simmons. |
| | D) | Al Gore. |
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Lester R. Brown, who does not believe that the world should continue to rely on oil as the major source of energy, notes that the discovery of new oil reserves in the United States peaked around: |
| | A) | 1930. |
| | B) | 1956. |
| | C) | 1970. |
| | D) | 1994. |
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Stephen Lendman, who believes that the world will be able to feed itself in the foreseeable future, reports that wheat shortages in Peru are acute enough to have the military make bread with: |
| | A) | tapioca. |
| | B) | potato flour. |
| | C) | cornmeal. |
| | D) | rice flour. |
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Bee Wilson, who does not believe that the world will be able to feed itself in the foreseeable future, refers to the content of "Essay on the Principle of Population," which was written in: |
| | A) | 2006 by Stephen Lendman. |
| | B) | 1954 by Cormac McCarthy. |
| | C) | 1826 by Taras Grescoe. |
| | D) | 1798 by Thomas Malthus. |
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The minority of scientists who remain skeptical that global warming is occurring generally argue that the only evidence of climate change is based on: |
| | A) | historic records. |
| | B) | anecdotal evidence. |
| | C) | imperfectly preserved ice and soil samples. |
| | D) | laboratory experiments. |
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The conditions for the establishment of the Kyoto Treaty concerning global warming were met and the treaty went into effect after the ratification of the agreement by: |
| | A) | the United States. |
| | B) | Russia. |
| | C) | Turkey. |
| | D) | China. |
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Mark Clayton, who believes that the threat of a global water shortage is real, tells us that global population growth, pollution, and climate change are shaping a new view of water as: |
| | A) | "forbidden necessity." |
| | B) | "sacred life force." |
| | C) | "blue gold." |
| | D) | "liquid treasure." |
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Bjorn Lomborg, who does not believe that the threat of a global water shortage is real, contends that we can have sufficient water if we can: |
| | A) | conserve it. |
| | B) | produce it. |
| | C) | desalt it. |
| | D) | pay for it. |
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The illegal movement of drugs across national borders is almost always accompanied by the movement of: |
| | A) | migrant workers. |
| | B) | state secrets. |
| | C) | illegal weapons. |
| | D) | laundered cash. |
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According to the UN report, the only area in which illegal drug production has increased recently has been in the cultivation or manufacture of: |
| | A) | cannabis. |
| | B) | cocaine. |
| | C) | amphetamines. |
| | D) | opium. |
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According to the Global Influenza Programme, which believes that the international community is adequately prepared to address global health pandemics, better "disease intelligence" particularly concerns: |
| | A) | attracting more disease experts to the medical field. |
| | B) | isolating the virus with more accuracy earlier on in a pandemic. |
| | C) | changes in the behavior of the virus. |
| | D) | realizing earlier how fast the virus will transmit across human populations. |
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H. T. Goranson, who does not believe that the international community is adequately prepared to address global health pandemics, states that birds are the greatest concern today because: |
| | A) | the raising of these creatures is poorly regulated. |
| | B) | the spread is easy to see. |
| | C) | they generally are raised in squalor. |
| | D) | their cells are easily mutated. |
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Janie Chuang, who believes that the international community has designed an adequate strategy to address human trafficking, notes that governments have tended to view human trafficking as a problem of: |
| | A) | poverty. |
| | B) | discrimination. |
| | C) | law and order. |
| | D) | gender-based violence. |
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Dina Francesca Haynes, who does not believe that the international community has designed an adequate strategy to address human trafficking, contends that politicians and governments use the issue of human trafficking to bolster all of the following political agendas except: |
| | A) | fighting prostitution. |
| | B) | curtailing illegal migration. |
| | C) | combating terrorism. |
| | D) | preserving human rights. |
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The immediate result of a Public Citizen proclamation against globalization, Meredith and Hoppough note, was a massive protest and riot outside a conference of: |
| | A) | NAFTA members. |
| | B) | the Group of 8. |
| | C) | the World Trade Organization. |
| | D) | major U.S. corporate leaders. |
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Steven Weber and his colleagues argue that the evils of globalization are more dangerous now than ever before because: |
| | A) | terrorism is likely to occur in randomly chosen locations. |
| | B) | there is only one superpower in the world today. |
| | C) | world population growth has led to unhealthy overcrowding in some areas of the world. |
| | D) | distinctive cultures and languages are being lost at an ever-increasing rate. |
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Allan Brian Ssenyonga, who believes that the world is a victim of American imperialism, says that "a complex series of economic, social, technological, and political changes seen as increasing interdependence and interaction between people and companies in disparate locations" is more simply known by the umbrella term: |
| | A) | socialism. |
| | B) | globalization. |
| | C) | assimilation. |
| | D) | liberalization. |
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Tyler Cowen, who does not believe that the world is a victim of American imperialism, says that using culture to connect with other people and to define ourselves are both, to some extent: |
| | A) | a demonstration of weakness. |
| | B) | socially regressive. |
| | C) | economic decisions. |
| | D) | measures of cultural imperialism. |
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Katsuhito Iwai, who believes that the global economic crisis is a failure of capitalism, makes the forecast that, if matters are mishandled in the period lying ahead, with stock prices continuing to move up and down violently, the world is on the brink of falling into: |
| | A) | a bankrupt generation. |
| | B) | another Great Depression. |
| | C) | a lost decade. |
| | D) | an abyss of no return. |
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Dani Rodrik, who does not believe that the global economic crisis is a failure of capitalism, characterizes capitalism as: |
| | A) | self-sustaining. |
| | B) | self-regulating. |
| | C) | counter-cyclical. |
| | D) | in need of stabilizing arrangements. |
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Stephen F. Cohen, who believes that we are in a new cold war, claims that the overwhelming majority of U.S. officials and opinion makers who do acknowledge the serious deterioration in relations between Washington and Moscow blame the development solely on: |
| | A) | the "lingering taste" of the Soviet Union. |
| | B) | the carelessness of the Clinton Administration. |
| | C) | the trumped-up relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. |
| | D) | Putin's domestic and foreign policies. |
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Stephen Kotkin, who does not believe that we are in a new cold war, claims that when a big majority of Russians accept or even applaud Putin's concentration of power, Anglo-American observers suspect not just ignorance but a love of: |
| | A) | charismatic politics. |
| | B) | authoritarianism. |
| | C) | the new order. |
| | D) | the status quo. |
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Brian Michael Jenkins, who believes we are headed toward a nuclear 9/11, asserts that terrorism has increasingly become: |
| | A) | the subject to avoid in high places. |
| | B) | an effective strategic weapon. |
| | C) | a media favorite. |
| | D) | "uninteresting" news. |
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Graham Allison, who does not believe we are headed toward a nuclear 9/11, makes a case for the creation of: |
| | A) | a network of bomb-proof underground shelters. |
| | B) | a global alliance against nuclear terrorism. |
| | C) | an international military team trained in catastrophic first response. |
| | D) | an alliance of Western scientists for the development of anti-nuclear systems. |
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Shibley Telhami argues that an organization such as al-Qaeda presents a terrorist threat mainly because: |
| | A) | the United States and other governments over-react to terrorism. |
| | B) | of their fundamental extremism. |
| | C) | they have been able to tap into strong anti-Western sentiment. |
| | D) | they are secretly funded by legitimate governments. |
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Some of the social issues that evangelical Christians have concerned themselves with since George W. Bush took office, according to Hussein Solomon, have included all of the following except: |
| | A) | flag burning. |
| | B) | the teaching of intelligent design in schools. |
| | C) | same sex marriage. |
| | D) | euthanasia. |
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Countries known to have nuclear weapons that have not acknowledged their nuclear capability include: |
| | A) | India and Pakistan. |
| | B) | Israel and South Africa. |
| | C) | Jordan and China. |
| | D) | Japan and South Africa. |
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Iran has chosen a path of balancing itself against U.S. interests by adopting all of the following policies except: |
| | A) | supporting groups outside U.S. policy interests. |
| | B) | funding terrorism against Israel and the United States. |
| | C) | seeking a place on the UN Security Council. |
| | D) | pursuing nuclear technology with the assistance of other states. |
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According to Shujie Yao, the current success of China can be attributed to Deng Xiaoping's policies of reform and openness, which emphasized: |
| | A) | nationalism. |
| | B) | military strength. |
| | C) | improving national education. |
| | D) | gradual steps. |
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Pranab Bardhan argues that much of the talk of China's impressive economic growth is exaggerated, as he notes that the decline in poverty in that country: |
| | A) | resulted from a decline in population. |
| | B) | was brought about by the mid-1980s. |
| | C) | is observable only on paper. |
| | D) | has been offset by frequent economic crises. |
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The United Nations, which believes that the international community is making progress in addressing natural disasters, points out that probably the greatest global outcome of environmental inequity is: |
| | A) | industrial smog. |
| | B) | contaminated drinking water. |
| | C) | climate change. |
| | D) | soil erosion. |
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David Rothkopf, who does not believe that the international community is making progress in addressing natural disasters, says that the most shocking thing about the earthquake in Haiti was that it was so: |
| | A) | sudden. |
| | B) | predictable. |
| | C) | unpredictable. |
| | D) | horrific in its human toll. |
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Fareed Zakaria, who believes that al-Qaeda and its jihad against the United States has been defeated, maintains that in the United States, fanning the public's fear of rampant jihadism continues to be a winning strategy in the minds of: |
| | A) | Democrats. |
| | B) | Republicans. |
| | C) | the top brass at the Pentagon. |
| | D) | Muslims. |
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Scott Stewart, who does not believe that al-Qaeda and its jihad against the United States has been defeated, identifies the set of skills required to conduct a terrorist attack as: |
| | A) | the terror toolkit. |
| | B) | terrorist tradecraft. |
| | C) | the art of military unconvention. |
| | D) | classic cultism. |
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