Na última década, a China tornou-se o principal parceiro comercial brasileiro, assumindo relevância crescente na agenda internacional política e comercial do Brasil. A respeito das relações bilaterais entre esses países, assinale a opção correta.

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It is one of the most pressing questions of our time: what is the relationship between financial and environmental meltdown? Are the two crises the same thing, needing to be dealt with together? Or do we, as even some business leaders suggest, have to fix the environment before we can fix the economy? A slew of books, ebooks, pamphlets and journals are tackling this thorny question.

You might expect a strong “yes” from the greens to fixing the environment ahead of the economy. And in The Environmental Debt: The hidden costs of a changing global economy, long-time Greenpeace activist Amy Larkin does make a cogent argument for this. The high costs of coping with extreme weather, pollution and declining resources are, she says, catching up with capitalism. Our carefree attitude to the “externalities” of wealth generation has run up an environmental debt that is loading unsustainable financial debt on us all.

But environmentalists are not the only ones making the link. In Wall Street and the City, there is similar talk that the worst fears of environmentalists are coming to pass. As shortages of natural resources push up prices, a looming resource crunch is manifested in market meltdown.

Paul Donovan and Julie Hudson, economists for the Swiss bank UBS, agree. They argue that “there is a second credit crunch”, an environmental one. By ransacking global resources and enfeebling ecosystems, the authors say, we are drawing down environmental credit as surely as reckless spending on a credit card draws down financial credit. The two crunches have “a symbiotic relationship”, they argue: “The party has to stop.”

The synergies between financial and environmental crunches may be complex, but at root, many economists argue that reckless consumption, driven by easy credit, helped fuel financial crisis. Environmentalists agree that the same consumer binge drove up environmental debt.

F. Pearce. What do we fix first – environment or economy? Newscientist. July 8th, 2013 (adapted).

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This text refers to question.

It is one of the most pressing questions of our time: what is the relationship between financial and environmental meltdown? Are the two crises the same thing, needing to be dealt with together? Or do we, as even some business leaders suggest, have to fix the environment before we can fix the economy? A slew of books, ebooks, pamphlets and journals are tackling this thorny question.

You might expect a strong “yes” from the greens to fixing the environment ahead of the economy. And in The Environmental Debt: The hidden costs of a changing global economy, long-time Greenpeace activist Amy Larkin does make a cogent argument for this. The high costs of coping with extreme weather, pollution and declining resources are, she says, catching up with capitalism. Our carefree attitude to the “externalities” of wealth generation has run up an environmental debt that is loading unsustainable financial debt on us all.

But environmentalists are not the only ones making the link. In Wall Street and the City, there is similar talk that the worst fears of environmentalists are coming to pass. As shortages of natural resources push up prices, a looming resource crunch is manifested in market meltdown.

Paul Donovan and Julie Hudson, economists for the Swiss bank UBS, agree. They argue that “there is a second credit crunch”, an environmental one. By ransacking global resources and enfeebling ecosystems, the authors say, we are drawing down environmental credit as surely as reckless spending on a credit card draws down financial credit. The two crunches have “a symbiotic relationship”, they argue: “The party has to stop.”

The synergies between financial and environmental crunches may be complex, but at root, many economists argue that reckless consumption, driven by easy credit, helped fuel financial crisis. Environmentalists agree that the same consumer binge drove up environmental debt.

F. Pearce. What do we fix first – environment or economy? Newscientist. July 8th, 2013 (adapted).

Based on the text, judge if the item below are right (C) or wrong (E).

As far as the main issue of the text is concerned, the two economists of the Swiss bank are of the same opinion as the ecologist-author.

Acerca da configuração territorial da América portuguesa, julgue (C ou E) o seguinte item.

No século XVII, os portugueses conquistaram o litoral nordestino e a foz do rio Amazonas.

Sob o argumento universalista de defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos, a França tem procurado legitimar suas intervenções militares além-fronteiras. No entanto, tais intervenções parecem configurar uma geoestratégia de grande potência visando controlar áreas ricas em minérios. Considerando essa informação, assinale a opção que apresenta, com correção histórica, fato que confirma essa hipótese.

A respeito dos biomas brasileiros, assinale a opção correta.

Acerca das teorias de comércio internacional e do sistema multilateral de comércio, julgue (C ou E) o item a seguir.

A salvaguarda, e não uma medida antidumping, é aplicada contra as importações originárias de todos os países envolvidos na transação.