Week 1: Globalization
These damaging human conditions are often linked to pollution.
What are asthma, lung cancer, and heart disease?
This is a term for the most extreme form of food insecurity. Hint: Jonas had a memory of this.
What is famine?
This is change in global or regional climate patterns, often resulting is wet areas becoming wetter and dry areas become dryer.
What is climate change?
They pollinate most all of the crops that people use and eat. If they disappear, then our food production systems could collapse.
What are bees?
This is where people travel and stay in natural places, use little resources, and have experiences in the natural environment.
What is 'eco-tourism'?
The amount of carbon dioxide emissions for which an individual or group is responsible for.
What is carbon-footprint?
Sales of this green fruit, which is mostly grown in Mexico, have increased greatly in the last 20 years and is being sold all over the world, but also causes droughts and conflict.
What is the avocado?
The felling and clearing of forested land by humans
What is deforestation?
This book/project was created by a National Geographic photojournalist named Joe Sartore where he collected photos of endangered species.
What is the Photo Ark?
This actor as Iron Man in the Marvel movies, is now promoting investing in sustainable companies in order to help the environment.
Who is Robert Downey Jr. (RDJ)?
This describes actions that use too many resources too quickly and creates a situation where there is overproduction.
This type of food costs the most water and resources in order to produce.
These are three types of greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone?
The Kuzdu vine is invasive species that was brought from which country to the United States to be used as decoration for the outside of houses.
What is Japan?
The futuristic city of Freiburg, is a city know for its sustainable living, is located in this country.
What is Germany?
This is a production method where clothing lines are released very often, a lot of waste is produced, and too many clothes are being bought be consumers.
What is fast fashion?
In the sustainable food system known as entomophagy, this is what many people around the world are eating in order to get enough protein to eat.
What are bugs?
This effect of greenhouse gases is already being observed in the ocean.
What is ocean acidification?
This is a main reason that tigers are being hunted and killed in many countries.
What is for traditional medicines?
What is Bhutan?
Bankers, citizens, and elected officials are discussing if people should invest money in this new form of technology that can be used as money.
What is cryptocurrency?
Cassava roots are used as a sustainable solution to limit the amount of this everyday item that people use and then usually throw out.
What is plastic?
This is the biggest danger posed by global warming to people living in coastal areas.
What is the rising sea level?
Benefits of biodiversity, contributions to medicine, helping the tourism industry and protecting ecosystems are reasons why we should protect this.
What are endangered species?
What is smuggling/poaching?