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Question: Why did climate change happen during other time periods?
Because climate change happen one way in the past, does that mean it must happen the same way again?

Answer:

Answer by John Terry
“Why” is not fully understood. We do know that CO2 levels were lower during many of those periods than they are today. That does mean that whatever caused those comparable periods COULD have caused the early and late 20th century warming periods.

Climate change happened in the past without an increase in CO2 and for reasons not fully understood – apparently we agree on that point. Does it mean that the 20th century warming necessarily WASN’T caused by CO2?

No.

It DOES mean that we cannot simply INFER that it was caused by CO2.

And that inference is the entire case for man-made global warming.

…..that inference plus long-range predictions made by models that haven’t accurately predicted shorter-term temperature shifts – which means it’s dishonest or ignorant to insist that the models accurately reflect – and thus can rule out – all natural climate variables.

It’s simply not accurate to conclude that “natural forcings cannot explain the late 20th century warming” – it’s accurate to conclude that “our understanding of how natural forcings is limited and we cannot prove a natural cause or causes for the late 20th century warming – but we cannot prove what caused prior, comparable warming or cooling periods either.”

In the Will to Improve, Li draws mostly on the Foucaultian inspired Governmentality framework.
1.First, describe this framework in detail by outlining its components, its strengths and its weaknesses.
2.Then second, use this framework to analyze the logic, goals, outcomes, processes and unintended consequences of the four-five periodes of development in Sulawesi: Colonial (“ethical period”), New Order. Reformasi, TNC, and Neoliberal.
a.Be sure to explore the ways in which programs in each of these periods feed into the next period (e.g. the way that Christian conversion during the colonial era affected differentiation and violence in the New Order period).
b.Also, in your response, be sure to draw on and define concepts employed by Li (in addition to the Governmentality concepts, such as “conduct of conduct”): capital, dispossession, trustee, simplification, government through community, etc.
3.In what ways is this book political ecology?
yes it is an essay type question