30 Aug China’s modern coal consumption/production
- Access graph and background information from U.S. Energy Information Agency: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271
- Context: Who created this graph and when? What does it depict? [3 pts]
- Audience: who was meant to see this? Why do you think that? [2 pts]
- Reliability: what does this graph reveal about China’s energy transition or use? [1 pt]
- Purpose: why was this graph created? [1 pt]
- Environmental history: You will have to use indirect evidence from this graph, but do you see evidence of how humans affected the environment? how the environment affected humans? how humans’ ideas about nature affected their treatment of it? Analyze this image indicating how it indirectly represents at least two pillars of environmental history. [4 pts]
