Modern Sustainability Quiz

Sustainability is not a new concept. Yet, with changing times, its definition has changed for sure.

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1. Sustainability and environmental protection are modern ideas.

A. False

B. True

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2. Rachel Carson’s 1962 bestseller, Silent Spring was about:

A. How mining was destroying the biodiversity in Mexico

B. Recipes from North America

C. A map to natural springs across USA

D. How large-scale pesticide use destroyed rural communities.

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3. One of the creators of The Chipko Movement, a grassroots activist movement to stop deforestation in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand was:

A. Lalu Prasad Bhatt

B. Indira Gandhi

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. Chandi Prasad Bhatt

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4. The UN's first major conference on international environmental issues was called:

A. The Kyoto Protocol

B. United Nation’s Conference on the World Environment

C. Glastonbury Festival

D. United Nation’s Conference on the Human Environment

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5. What were the needs of the time, that led to the Brundtland Commission?

A. The need to pacify activists and intellectuals.

B. The need to develop a holistic framework that would manage development but would not destroy the environment

C. The need to create capital and leapfrog a recession.

D. The need to regulate international policy and make it legally enforceable.

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6. The name of the report that was the legacy of the Brundtland Commission was called:

A. Our Green Future

B. Our Common Future

C. Our Diverse Future

D. Our Similar Future

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7. Gro Harlem Brundtland the chair of the Brundtland Commission was the ex-PM of which country:

A. Egypt

B. El Salvador

C. Norway

D. Venezuela

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8. Using CFL bulbs is more energy efficient than conventional bulbs.

A. False

B. True

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9. Select the efficient methods to reduce your environmental impact:

A. Use wooden or metal straws, refuse plastic straws.

B. Compost kitchen wastes.

C. Say no to single use plastic and paper bags, use reusable bags while shopping.

D. Take long hot water showers.

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Sustainability is not a new concept. Yet, with changing times, its definition has changed for sure.

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