Question

Transborder environmental impacts can take place when one country's pollution spills over into a second country in all of the following situations except:_____.

a. the production of exported products degrades the local environment.
b. when industrial production in one country creates acid rain in another country.
c. when heavy traffic between two or more countries creates semi-global warming.
d. when an upstream user pollutes a shared watershed.

Answer 1

The transborder environmental impact that does not take place is when heavy traffic between countries is claimed to create semi-global warming, as global warming is a global issue, not confined to traffic between two countries.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question identifies situations where transborder environmental impacts occur and asks which of the provided scenarios does not represent such an impact. Transborder environmental impacts happen when the environmental actions of one country affect another country. The scenarios listed involve the degradation of the local environment due to exported product production, industrial production causing acid rain in another country, and pollution of a shared watershed by an upstream user - all of which are examples of transborder environmental impacts. However, the statement about heavy traffic causing semi-global warming does not accurately reflect how global warming occurs, as global warming is a result of accumulated greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale, not just from heavy traffic between countries.