Given the Nature of Current Global Environmental Problems, Possible Scenarios

question 19

Multiple Choice

Given the nature of current global environmental problems, possible scenarios of what might happen in the next 5-10 years are:
(Please select all that apply.)

• A) A gradual attenuation of global trends in favourable directions for sustainable development
• B) A continuation of current trends with increasingly disastrous climatic patterns, resource exhaustion, and global instability
• C) Changes in the international context leading to a favourable involvement of key countries who are major GHG generators, but not currently signatories to the Kyoto Agreement, in signing up to this and other sustainable development initiatives
• D) Relatively little change from what we are experiencing now, as current trends are not outside the range of observed experience, and the phenomenon of global warming is an unproven possibility

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