miércoles, 6 de abril de 2011

More on global warming

An interesting video about farming and its possible future

Una Granja para el Futuro from Horatiux on Vimeo.


Answer these questions about the first 20 minutes of the documentary. Then carry on watching it if you feel like it:

1. Why is that farm so special for Rebecca?

2. What fascinated her as a child?

3. What does she do nowadays?

4. What will likely force a revolution in farming?

5. What will this affect?

-what we ................
-where we.................
-the alarming question of whether there will be enough...........

6. What are her memories of her childhood in the farm?

7. What are the implications of being small time farmers?
-not much.....
-a lot of ..........

8. How does her father describe farmers?
-Glorified.....

9.What did her parents actively encouraged her to do?
-get out of....
-go and find
-go and make a ...

10. How does she describe making a living and at the same time preserving the wildlife on the farm?

11. What is the inconvenient truth?
The farm is not more.....

12. What are the farms that she know utterly dependent on?

13. Why is this dependence particularly dnagerous?
-climate...
-not enough.....

14. According to Dr. Collin Campbell, 1981 was a turning point for ....

15. A garage sandwich means the use of tons of fossil fuels. In what ways?