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Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 25

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✓✓THE PLANNER

11. Making effective personal and professional decisions
    requires access to appropriate, high-quality information.
    In this chapter, we have described how the scientific
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Sustainable Citizen Question

Dollars

1800 Present

Time

10

20

30

40

50 Average income

in world’s poorest

countries

Average income

in world’s richest

countries

Based on data from R. K Pachauri,“Sustainable Well-Being,”

Science

Vol 315 (Feb 16 2007), page 913.

Safi, Ahmad Saleh; William James Smith, Jr., and Zhnongwei Lui, “Rural

Nevada and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Beliefs, and Risk Perception,”

Risk Analysis, Volume 32, Issue 6, June, 2012: 1041-1059.