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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. The first of these.
What are antibiotics?
A parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes in tropical areas. Killed more than 600,000 people each year in the early 21st century.
What is malaria?
A deadly disease caused by a virus that infects the African fruit bat, humans, and other primates. Caused a great scare in the west in 2014.
What is Ebola?
The first major international agreement to reduce carbon emissions was____________.
What was the Kyoto Protocol?
Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Economic boom.
What are Asian Tigers?
Scientist Gregory Pincus developed this.
What is a birth control pill?
How is this going to impact the world?
The international non-governmental organization (NGO) _______________________treated about 1.7 million people annually.
What is Doctors without Borders?
As people lived longer, a form of dementia known as ___________disease that affects elderly and some middle-aged people also became an increasing concern.
What is Alzheimer's?
In 2015, 195 countries signed a deal. It gave new hope for progress against global warming. Leaders of both the United States and China supported this new deal. However, in 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
What was the Paris Agreement?
Why do you think the US did not want to sign on?
Taxes on foreign imports.
What are Protective tariffs?
In 1900, coal accounted for about half of the global energy consumed.
What is coal?
An airborne infection that spreads through coughs and sneezes and affects the lungs. Hits poverty areas hard.
What is tuberculosis?
The World Health Organization predicts that by 2025, half of the world's population will lack ____________.
What is clean or safe drinking water?
Economic systems based on supply and demand, with as little government control as possible. Reagan and Thatcher.
What are free markets?
The only UN body in which all members have representation.
What is the General Assembly?
Epidemic diseases that spread across national borders.
What are pandemics?
Examples?
A bacterial disease that spreads through contaminated water, ________ causes about 95,000 deaths per year.
What is cholera?
Energy derived from resources that are continuously replenished, such as wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal power.
What is Renewable Energy Sources?
Critics of Free Market ideas charged that globalization led to labor exploitation and environmental damage.
What are labor exploitation and environmental damage?
The UN's ________ ________ has five permanent members, the leading Allies of World War II: the United States, France, Great Britain, Russia, and China.
What is the Security Council?
Increases the spread of these pandemics.
What is Globalization?
Disease caused by water contaminated by a virus transmitted in fecal matter. Once infected 100,000 new people per year. It could result in paralysis and sometimes death. FDR.
What is polio?
The amount of carbon dioxide that each person produces.
What is the Carbon Footprint?
Economic liberalization in 1981 reached China as well. The man behind China's plan.
Who was Deng Xiaoping?
Created in 1945, the _______ _______ _______ was designed to help a country's economy by promoting stable currency exchange rates.
What is the The International Monetary Fund?