Oil & Climate Skepticism
This company famously covered up damning climate research, decades before we would face major impacts from anthropogenic climate change.
What is ExxonMobil?
A new fashion company regularly overstocks clothing, is constantly adding new things to the website, while other things go on sale. They have no sustainability policy and have a factory that has violated EPA guidelines. They are engaging in this behavior.
What is Short term-ism?
This many adults put off needed healthcare because of the cost (hint: just more than the one in five adults who avoid filling prescriptions because of cost).
What is 1 in 4?
Black and Hispanic adults, women, parents, lower-income and uninsured adults experience a disproportionate amount of healthcare debt.
Agricultural runoff is one of the main reasons for this type of event, which leads to species dye-offs.
What are Harmful Algal Blooms?
This powerful oil and glass lobby, was founded in 1988 and heavily influenced U.S. climate policy?
What is the Global Climate Coalition?
A 2018 U.S. Department of Labor report found evidence of forced and child labor in the fashion industry in many countries. Name 3 out of the 9 listed.
What are Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Vietnam?
The passing of this act led to the closure of many healthcare inequities for low-income people and people of color.
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Socialized healthcare in this limited setting helped fit the needs of people better than private insurance.
These farms are the dominant model of animal agriculture in the U.S. As of February 2024, they held 1.7 billion animals.
What are Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s)?
This campaign, created by the Edison Electric Institute, aimed to "Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)."
What is the Information Council for the Environment (ICE).
The percentage of textiles that go to dumps each year.
What is 85%?
Comparing 10 countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States), the U.S. ranks here overall regarding healthcare.
What is last place?
The outcomes were access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes. The paper this pulls from identifies financial barriers as the main culprit.
Based on USDA estimates, this percentage of food goes to waste each year in the production process.
What is 30-40%?
Bob Bruelle identified several organizations as a part of the climate counter-movement: how many?
91, including the Cato Institute
Garment workers, primarily women, in Bangladesh make about this amount per month.
What is $96?
The government’s wage board suggested that a garment worker needs 3.5 times that amount in order to live a “decent life with basic facilities.”
The patent for insulin was originally sold for this amount under the hope it would remain affordable for consumers.
What is $1 ($17.05 adjusted for inflation)
Insulin prices have since risen, costing $275 a vial in 2017. They have since been capped at $35 out-of-pocket costs due to immense consumer pressure.
Since 1997, 145 lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. by Monsanto (a past major agriculture company) over what action?
What is farmers replanting their seeds?
Monsanto crafted patents for the seeds they produced that bar farmers from collecting and planting from their harvest.
Between 2003 and 2007, ExxonMobil gave this large sum of money to the counter-climate movement to sew doubt in consumers.
What is $7.2m to such bodies, 3m more than the American Petroleum Institute
The number of new clothing pieces produced each year, a 400% uptick from 20 years ago?
What is 80 million?
U.S. healthcare spending totaled this much annually, about three times that of the government commitment to healthcare in the annual budget.
What is $4.9 trillion (or $14,570 per person).
Deregulation in the 1980's subsequently led to monopolization of agriculture. Across five categories (fertilizer, seed, machinery, beef packing, and grocery) there 17 companies (about 3 per category) that own the lion's share of the industry. Name 3 companies from any of these categories.
Three fertilizer companies—CF Industries, Nutrien, and Koch—control 93% of nitrogen fertilizer sales in North America.
Four seed companies—Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina, and BASF—control over 60% of the global seed market.
Two farm machinery giants—Deere & Co. and CNH Industrial—dominate tractor and combine sales.
Four beef packers—Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef—control 85% of the U.S. beef market.
Four grocery retailers—Walmart, Kroger, Costco, and Albertsons—control over 65% of the U.S. grocery market.