Trade, Fair to Free
Term for the historic transfer of goods and products between Europe, the Americas, and Africa
What is Triangle Trade?
Walt Whitman Rostow, the author of the "Stages of Economic Growth," was a proponent of this development theory
What is Modernization Theory?
This article's main argument was that the Americas pre-conquest were more populated than commonly thought and that pre-conquest societies had a larger impact on the environment than previously understood
What is the Pristine Myth (or Mann 2002)?
Proponents of renaming our geologic epoch point to this mass loss of species to emphasize humans' outsized impacts
What is the Sixth Great Extinction?
Name three products that are fair trade certified!
What is coffee, banana, honey, orange, sugar, tea, Driscoll's(!), clothing from Patagonia, Madewell, Athleta, J.Crew? (many possible answers)
The United States policy that famously denounced European colonialism
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
An agreement settled between the Portuguese and Spanish in 1494 to claim newly discovered land in the New World
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Name an example of a natural disaster that is extenuated by a social, political or economic pressure?
What is COVID, Climate change, famine, drought, hurricanes, fires (there are many answers)
The type of trade where regulations protect primarily producers and emphasize small-scale business owners and community development
What is fair trade?
The group that defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
What is the 1987 Brundtland Commission Report, or "Our Common Future?"
European conquest was marked by these three Gs
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
Another argument for the renaming of our epoch as the Anthropocene was this time period after WWII until 1960 that saw a boom in technology, chemicals, plastics, and nuclear testing.
The Great Acceleration
The type of trade where economic theory suggests lower overhead costs and where there is high flow of goods between countries
What is free trade?
The three key components to sustainable development
What is 1) economic growth, 2) social justice, and 3) environment?
The theory that supports the idea that marine resources--not an agricultural base--enabled Peruvian civilizations to develop and flourish
What is the Maritime Hypothesis?
This theory states that economic development initially results in environmental deterioration, but after a certain turning point, actually reduces environmental harm
What is the Environmental Kuznets Curve?
Trade liberalization agreements, development agencies, and globalization support this model of trade (usually for one product)
What is a Non-Traditional Agricultural Export (NTAE)?
Name a Latin American country that exhibits or used to exhibit the Dependency Model
What is Mexico, Argentina, Brazil? (multiple answers)
Name one reason why we know Latin America was settled between 25,000 BP and 14,000 BP (Before Present)
What is 1) Bering Land Bridge between Asia and the Americas, 2) Teeth suggest this 3) Mitochondrial DNA mutations 4) Carbon dating at civilization locations (multiple possible answers)
Bjorn Lomborg argues that other development issues are more pressing than climate change and we should not seek mitigation strategies that change business as usual. He wrote this controversial book
What is The Skeptical Environmentalist?