Lesson8 Adaptation

Question 1

How many people in poverty work in agriculture?

Answer 1

2/3

Question 2

What is their typical farm size?

Answer 2

4 acres

Question 3

How many of these farms are there?

Answer 3

Over 500 million

Question 4

What makes it hard for them?

Answer 4

Unpredictable weather.

Question 5

What is one of the major areas of research?

Answer 5

Finding a drought-tolerant corn.

Question 6

For how many people is corn their most important food?

Answer 6

1.2 billion
2.It is 30% of their calories

Question 7

What else is corn (maize) used for?

Answer 7

Feeding animals.

Question 8

How drought-resistant many maize varieties have they come up with?

Answer 8

Over 200

Question 9

What is Scuba Rice?

Answer 9

A rice than can withstand long-term flooding

Question 10

Why is farming a double-sided coin?

Answer 10

It is affected by climate change and it contributes to climate change.

Question 11

Other than livestock, what else contributes to methane emission?

Answer 11

Rice farming.

Question 12

What will rising sea levels make us do?

Answer 12

Move inland.

Question 13

What choices are inevitable?

Answer 13

Do we build interim seawalls or do we start moving people?

Question 14

We have new technologies to fight climate change but they are not nearly enough, yet. What is Project Vesta?

Answer 14

They are developing a negative emission technology called
Coastal Carbon Capture.

Question 15

How does it work?

Answer 15

It captures carbon from the air and puts it in the oceans.

Question 16

What is Chemical Weathering?

Answer 16

It is a natural process that has been removing CO2 for billions of years.

Question 17

What isn’t good enough about this process now?

Answer 17

It’s too slow.

Question 18

What is Vesta’s potential solution?

Answer 18

Uses the common mineral Olivine.
When it comes in contact with water and CO2 it transfers the CO2 to the water.

Question 19

How long will the carbon stay in the ocean?

Answer 19

Thousands of years. As it moves through the water it moves down

Question 20

What is its cost?

Answer 20

$50 - $75 per ton of CO2 removed, a competitive price.

Question 21

What does direct-air carbon capture cost?

Answer 21

$100 - $200/ ton of CO2 removed.

Question 22

What is their 1-year goal in carbon capture?

Answer 22

Capturing 1 million tons of CO2.

Question 23

What is their 10-year goal?

Answer 23

A gigaton of CO2.

Question 24

What percentage of beaches would have to have olivine on them?

Answer 24

.2%

Question 25

What’s the biggest challenge?

Answer 25

You need local community agreement (social license)