People
Greek king from Macedonia whose vast conquests created cultural links throughout the Mediterranean region and east as far as the Indus Valley.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This was the ruling empire in Mesopotamia around 2250 BCE.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
The worst year to be alive.
What is 536 CE?
One of the subsystems in the Earth system; all living organisms in and on the Earth.
What is Biosphere?
Emerged between the United States and the Soviet Union as a defining feature of geopolitics.
What is the Cold War?
Swedish climate activist who started a school strike for climate in 2018 at the age of 15.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The mandate of heaven originated in this country.
What is China?
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway was published in this year.
What is 2010?
a popular term that references oil, its immense value, and the fact that it, like gold, must be extracted from the earth.
What is the Black Gold?
This movement, which claims 14 millions participants in 7,500 cities across all continents, began ingloriously in 2018.
What is the Fridays for Future movement?
Dutch meteorologist who helped found the IPCC in 1988, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, and coined the term "Anthropocene" in 2000.
Who is Paul J. Crutzen?
A valley in present-day Pakistan that is home to the Indus River, was the location of some of the world's earliest agrarian societies, and marks the eastern extent of Alexander the Great's conquests.
What is the Indus Valley?
Oil was discovered in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk in this year.
What is 1927?
Climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss are the three components that make up this term.
What is the triple planetary crisis?
This international agreement was created as an aim to combat climate change.
What is the Paris Agreement?
an American scientist who in 1958 began systematic record keeping of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
Who is Charles David Keeling?
Studies have found that this location is a hundred times more likely to experience drought as a result of climate change.
What is the Horn of Africa?
A New York Times article published on this day counted Al Gore's support for the Kyoto Protocol and George W. Bush's opposition to it as the leading issue that distinguished the candidates on the environment.
What is November 3, 2000?
A point of no return when changes in a climate system become irreversible.
Legislation championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey.
What is the Green New Deal?
a Brazilian environmental activist and member of the Munduruku people of the Tapajos River Middle Course who has defended portions of the Brazilian rainforest in various ways.
Who is Alessandra Korap Munduruku?
Abnormally severe fires have ravaged these five locations in the past few years.
What are Greece, Australia, California, Canada, and Hawaii?
The Zhou dynasty lasted throughout this time span.
What is 1046 - 256 BCE?
Also known as carbon capture; the act of taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it.
What is carbon sequestration?
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development founded this in 1992.
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?