Read/listen to the articles listed below. Take notes. Click on the provided hyperlinks to take you to the articles. You are required to view “BBC Our World India’s Water Crisis” and “Climate Crisis in India: Heat Wave Causes Water Scarcity”. In addition, chose three of the five articles below to reference in your initial post:
https://m.dw.com/en/water-wars-are-india-and-pakistan-heading-for-climate-change-induced-conflict/a-47203933
https://psmag.com/environment/chennai-india-is-running-out-of-water-other-cities-will-be-soon
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14800
Are India and Pakistan
on the Verge of a Water
War? By Keith Johnson
2. Analyze the points you collected from the articles. Focus on sections where you can make connections to Diamond’s five-point framework. Here is a link to the video we watched at the beginning of the semester to refresh your memory
3. Using Diamond’s five-points, analyze the following questions/assumptions about the factors leading to South Asia’s recent troubles:
Keeping Diamond’s Theory in mind, analyze the argument that climate change is adding environmental pressure to societal pressures in South Asian countries.
What role, if any, has climate change played in causing potential conflict between India and Pakistan?
How do dysfunctional societal factors increase the likelihood that India is more susceptible to climate related disturbance?
4. Write a short 1 page (roughly 400 words) analysis where you discuss the prompts above. I recommend that you open a word processing program like Word or Google Docs to write out your assignment and then “cut and paste” your response to Canvas.
Spacing: Single-spaced
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 pt
Margins: 1-inch on all sides
Papers need to be written using proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
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