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Bill McKibben, “Waste Not, Want Not”

What does McKibben describe at the beginning of the essay?

A. a typical American dump

B. a Bombay slum

C. working at his town’s recycling day

D. the manufacturing process for a plastic water bottle

What does McKibben call the “dangerous, sooty” kind of waste?

A. sludge

B. industrial pollutants

C. old-fashioned waste

D. kamikaze waste

What point does McKibben make about nuclear energy?

A. Improving efficiency is a cheaper and easier solution to global warming.

B. It’s one of our best hopes for fighting global warming.

C. Public fear of nuclear power is preventing the industry from making real progress.

D. Nuclear plants can be designed to be fail-safe, but not fail-proof.

Who is Chris Jordan?

A. a photographer who takes pictures of excessive waste

B. a documentary filmmaker who spent a year living off items collected from a dump

C. a politician whom McKibben quotes in the essay

D. the head of the waste-management company McKibben visits

What main solution does McKibben propose to resolve the problem of waste?

A. a grassroots movement to educate the public about waste

B. mandatory recycling programs in all cities and towns

C. a return to thriftiness

D. better technology to curb greenhouse-gas emissions