Questões de Inglês

TEXTO

Ovid on climate change

(Eliza Griswold)

Bastard, the other boys teased him,
till Phaethon unleashed the steeds
of Armageddon. He couldn’t hold
their reins. Driving the sun too close
to earth, the boy withered rivers,
torched Eucalyptus groves, until the hills
burst into flame, and the people’s blood
boiled through the skin. Ethiopia,
land of   burnt faces. In a boy’s rage
for a name, the myth of race begins.

Disponível em: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55952/ovidon-climate-change. Acesso em: 18 set. 2023.

TEXTO

Why your perception of climate change threats might depend on where you live - new research

    Our planet has just seen its hottest month on record, with many places on fire or flooded. [...] However, not everyone notices or feels this threat to the same extent. [...] In our study, we wanted to find out how British people who live in cities experience the threat of climate change, compared with people who live rurally. Based on a representative sample of 1,071 survey respondents from across the UK, we found that people in rural areas showed higher degrees of place attachment than people living in cities, as we expected. However, we were surprised to see that the perceived threat of climate change in the most rural locations was lower. […] there are three compelling explanations.

1. Awareness

    People in rural areas may not be as aware of climate change as people in cities. [...] However, looking more closely, the effect is mostly down to education rather than whether people live in rural areas or not. [...]

2. Experience

    People in rural areas may not experience climate change in the same way as people in cities. This is because rural areas have higher levels of green space than urban areas. For example, you will feel the heat less when you are surrounded by trees.

3. Resilience

    [...] Rural people may be aware of climate change and they may experience it like everyone else, but they may have better ways of coping with it than city dwellers because of their closer relationship with nature. This may have taught them to be more flexible in how they deal with change. [...]

    Climate change is certainly worrying for most of us and sometimes linked with heightened anxiety. [...] What matters is what we do in our everyday lives, how much we recognise that things are changing and whether we are willing to take action.

Disponível e adaptado de: https://theconversation.com/why-yourperception-of-climate-change-threats-might-depend-on-where-youlive-new-research-212888 Acesso em: 13 set. 2023.

Text

    Due to the long and horrific history of stolen land and colonization, the Western world often refers to Indigenous peoples’ culture and knowledge in the past tense. Yet today, Indigenous peoples are indisputably the best guardians of our world’s most precious ecosystems. Western society still desperately needs to learn what Indigenous people have known for millennia: that human beings must live in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth. Around the world, Indigenous peoples have long practiced the key elements of regenerative agriculture.

    An example is the art of agroforestry. Some Indigenous communities, like the Lenca people in Honduras, know agroforestry simply as “traditional technique.” Agroforestry — or the concept of growing crops in a way that mimics the forest and offers shade, protection, and nutrients — is such common practice there is no special name for it. By using sustainable practices taught from one generation to another, Indigenous peoples actively safeguard forests, preserving biodiversity and keeping a delicate balance essential for both the environment and their own sustenance.

    Another example is intercropping ingenuity. Much of modern agriculture relies on monoculture, where just one single crop is grown across vast sprawling fields. While industrial farmers see this as a more efficient and simplified way to farm, it also depletes the soil of nutrients. Instead, Indigenous peoples have long practiced polyculture, where many different types of crops are grown alongside each other. Intercropping helps regulate soil moisture and deter pests. It also increases biodiversity by encouraging a symbiotic relationship between plants, soil microorganisms, insects, and animals.

Internet: rainforest-alliance.org (adapted).

Text

Internet: mediakasvatus.fi/ (adapted).

Text

Internet: mediakasvatus.fi/ (adapted).

Leia o fragmento de texto a seguir e responda a QUESTÃO.

    A zoo in eastern China has denied suggestions that some of its bears were people dressed in costume after videos of a Malayan sun bear standing on its hind legs – and looking uncannily human – went viral, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories on Chinese social media.

    In a statement written from the perspective of a sun bear named “Angela,” officials from a zoo in Hangzhou said people “didn’t understand” the species.

    “I’m Angela the sun bear – I got a call after work yesterday from the head of the zoo asking if I was being lazy and skipped work today and found a human to take my place,” the statement read.

    “Let me reiterate again to everyone that I am a sun bear – not a black bear, not a dog – a sun bear!”

    In videos shared on the popular Chinese microblogging site Weibo, a sun bear was seen standing upright on a rock and looking out of its enclosure.

    Many Weibo users noted the animal’s upright posture, as well as folds of loose fur on its behind – making the bear look somewhat odd and fueling speculation that a human imposter might be masquerading in its place.

    It might sound like an implausible gambit. But zoos in China have courted public ridicule in the past for trying to pass off pets like dogs as wild animals.

    In 2013, a city zoo in the central Henan province angered visitors by trying to pass off a Tibetan Mastiff dog as a lion. Visitors who had approached the enclosure expressed shock when they heard the “lion” bark.

    Visitors at another Chinese zoo, in Sichuan province, were shocked to discover a golden retriever sitting in a cage labeled as an African lion enclosure

Disponível em: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/china/sun-bear-claims-china-hangzhou-zoointl-hnk (Adaptado)