If a physician removes a respirator from a competent patient who needs it and wants to continue using it, then the action is wrong even though she only removed an artificial device and allowed nature to take its course.

Javi’s mother

McKibben lists two effects of climate change that humans are already experiencing. These effects include (check all that apply):

Javi tells the painter that when the police ask him whether he is Mexican, he replies that

McKibben argues that the ethic of many American politicians and business people is based on Ayn Rand s philosophy regarding the virtue of selfishness.

Javi and the painter are similar in terms of

What sentence most accurately summarizes the claim that McKibben makes about the role of the fossil fuel industry in preventing government and civil action to curb climate change?

McKibben explains that a question arises about coastline retreat: Where should people go? This question is difficult to answer because rising temperatures are also affecting the places where human beings can live. For example, he writes that (select all that apply):

McKibben reports that recently a major fossil fuel company said it would spend 1/100 of its budget to back the fight for a carbon tax of $40 for a ton of oil, but climate scientists believe that such a tax would not have enough of an effect at this point. 

Another aspect of human survivability on the planet is connected to access to water. For example, McKibben reports that (select all that apply):