Chapter-5: The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role

 

2. Who said, “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers, we have borrowed it from our children ?”

•  Mr. Lester Brown
• Margaret Thatcher
• Mr. Edgar S. Woolard
• None of these

Answer

Mr. Lester Brown

3. The world’s ancient tropical forests are now eroding very fast at the rate of –

•  40 million acres a year
• 60 million acres a year
• 50 million acres a year
• None of these

Answer

50 million acres a year

4. “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers, we have borrowed it from our children” who said this?

•  Margaret Thatcher
• James Speth
• Mr. L. K. Jha
• Mr. Lester Brown

Answer

Mr. Lester Brown

5. The concept that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun was first introduced by-

•  Newton
• Copernicus
• Arehimedes
• Dalton

6. The concept of sustainable development was popularised in-

7. The Green Movement started in …

8. The author has compared the earth to a …

•  patient
• scientist
• doctor
• God

9. Green Movement shifted the focus from a mechanistic view to a holistic and …..

• technical view
• ecological view
• traditional view
• None of these

10. The World’s first nationwide Green Party was founded in ……..

•  USA
• Russia
• South Africa
• Newzealand

11. The President of the World Resource Institute is …

• James Speth
• Michael Poy
• Nani Palkhiwala
• None of these

12. The book “The Global Economic Prospect” is written by –

• James Speth
• Margaret Thatcher
• Lester R. Brown
• None of these

13. “The world’s most dangerous animal” is written on a cage in the zoo at Lusaka……

• Zambia
• Australia
• England
• None of these

14. Overfishing is common because the world is conscious about …

• Protein
• Fats
• Vitamin
• None of these

15.  A movement which started nearly twenty-five years ago was known as –

•  Satyagraha Movement
• Chipko Movement
• A Green Movement
• A Woman Movement

16. Why should we introduce voluntary family planning –

• To control population
• To eradicate poverty
• It is a hurdle in the path of progress
• None of these

Answer

To control population

17. Every four days the world population increases by ……………..”

•  1.5 million
• 1 million
• 1.7 million
•  half a million

18. What forms the foundation of the global economic system according to Lester Brown?

•  ” fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands ”
• land and water
•  forests, fisheries, grasslands
•  fisheries and forests

Answer

” fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands ”

19. “Scientists have catalogued about ………….. living species with which mankind shares the earth”

•  1.4 million
•  1.6 million
• 1.8 million
•  1.2 million

20. Where was the first nationwide Green party founded?

• USA
•  Australia
• New Zealand
• Canada