Potpourri!
This is the name for when radioactivity/waste remains after detonation of a nuclear weapon.
What is nuclear fallout?
Name for a process that allowed nitrogen to be taken from the atmosphere.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
Name of 18th/19th century thinker who thought famine was inevitable.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
Meaning of the prefix "Anthro"
What is human/man?
Fill in this title: Shock of the _______
What is anthropocene?
What is the Great War?
Name for the years between WWI and WWII?
What is the Interwar Years?
Who is Paul Ehrlich?
Meaning of the suffix -cene?
What is era?
Name of Paul Ehrlich's famous book on overpopulation.
Name of a 1952 event where severe pollution settled on London, killing many.
What is the Great London Smog?
Larry Summers wrote this "as a joke" and suggested sending pollution/polluting industries to poor countries.
What is the World Bank Memo?
Name for someone who promotes Malthus' ideas after his death/in recent times.
What is a neo-Malthusian?
Name of the era we are currently in OR that immediately preceded the anthropocene?
What is the holocene?
Poem by Wilfred Owen about the horrors of WWI.
Pesticide that killed mosquitos but also harmed Bald Eagles; subject of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
What is DDT?
Name for a group of lightbulb manufacturers that deliberately made light bulbs worse.
What is the Phoebus Cartel?
This development has allowed earth's population to exponentially grow without a Malthusian collapse.
What is the green revolution?
Name of chapter that focused on how war as contributed to the anthropocene.
What is "Thanatocene"?
In-class primary source about environmental justice?
What is Principles of Environmental Justice?
Movement in India by indigenous forest residents against state control of forest resources?
What is the Chipko movement?
Name for an ancient city located in modern-day Turkey were people threw trash in between houses and then built on top of the trash
What is Çatalhöyük?
Malthus believes that population grows ______ while food supply grows ______.
What is artithmatically and geometrically?
An alternative name for the anthropocene coined by Jason Moore.
What is the Capitalocene?
Fill in the full title of this book chapter: "Beans are Bullets, ______ are_____"?
What is potatoes are powder?