Reading Comprehension Quiz (E.O. Wilson, “The Future of Life”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

E.O. Wilson, “The Future of Life”

Read “The Future of Life” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question What does Wilson mean by this line: “But there is a problem: the key elements of natural capital, Earth’s arable land, ground water, forests, marine fisheries, and petroleum, are ultimately finite and not subject to proportionate capital growth”?

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Question What is causing resentment and fanaticism against the strongest nations?

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Question What does Wilson say about the extinction of natural ecosystems and species currently?

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Question How does Wilson suggest humans fix this biological impoverishment?

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Question Wilson claims that everyone has ethic.

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Question Wilson presents two stereotypes of people in conflict in the environmental debate. Who does he blame for the continuation of these stereotypes?

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Question Wilson suggests that a change of heart regarding the environment will occur when people do what?

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Question According to Wilson, why can’t the “juggernaut of technology-based capitalism” be stopped?

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