Case study set 2

Question 1

Amazon Deforestation

Answer 1

“The Amazon is being CHOMPED!”

Cattle ranching

Hydropower (dams)

Oil drilling

Mining (gold, iron)

Palm oil (encroachment)

Expansion (roads like BR-163)

Deforestation (result)

💡 Imagine a giant cow (C) eating the Amazon with a mining pick (M) and a hydro dam (H) in its mouth.

Question 2

Aral Sea Disaster

Answer 2

“Aral Sea sends an S.O.S.!”

Shrunk (90% gone)

Over-irrigation (cotton)

Salty graves (dead fish)

💡 Picture a fish sending a distress signal from a tiny puddle.

Question 3

Minamata Poisoning

Answer 3

“Mad Hatter’s Fish Tea Party”
(Mercury poisoning made hatters crazy in history—same chemical!)

Mad (neurological damage)

Fish (contaminated)

Tea (Chisso Corp’s toxic “tea” = wastewater)

💡 Imagine Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter drinking toxic fish tea.

Question 4

Germany’s Energiewende

Answer 4

“Windy Sunny No-Nuke Party”
Windy (wind power)

Sunny (solar)

No-Nuke (anti-nuclear)

Party (high costs, but they’re celebrating anyway)

💡 Germans dancing under wind turbines with sun hats, kicking nuclear reactors like soccer balls.

Question 5

Green Revolution Problems

Answer 5

“PUNJAB’s Hungry Water”
“PUNJAB”

Pesticides (overuse)

Underground water (depleted)

Nitrates (fertilizer runoff)

Junk soil (degraded)

Algae blooms (eutrophication)

Bankrupt farmers (debt)

💡 A farmer drinking muddy water (hungry for clean H₂O) surrounded by wilted crops.

Question 6

Great Barrier Reef Bleaching