Please watch the following videos and answer the questions that follow.

Michael Metcalfe: "A provocative way to finance the fight against climate change"

1. What promise was made at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009? What event diverted attention from that and other similar promises?
2. What is "quantitative easing"? How does Michael Metcalfe describe quantitative easing?
3. What did the banking crisis reveal about the potential behaviors of policy makers across countries? What is the implication of these behaviors for national security issues?
4. What is the Special Drawing Right (SDR)? What does Metcalfe suggest be done with the extra SDRs that were printed in 2009?
5. According to Metcalfe, what could be the potential advantages of printing international money through the IMF rather than printing national currencies, especially in regard to climate change?

Please watch the following videos and answer the questions that follow.

Jill Farrant: "How we can make crops survive without water"

1. What is the incentive for creating extremely drought-tolerant crops?
2. How do plants and humans differ when it comes to water composition, change, and strategies for retaining water?
3. What is the survival strategy of "annual" plants, such as flowering plants in the desert, and at what pace do they grow? What are the implications for food security?
4. What is a "resurrection plant," and what uses could they have?
5. Consider food security as a national security issue and weather as a potential environmental disaster. What are the implications of these two videos regarding how we should think about national security investments compared to the rest of the unit's content?