Econ
What is considered a healthy level of inflation?
1-3%
What is Trump's main rationale for the current tariffs?
trade deficits
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
water for farmers
What is the leading cause of animal extinction?
habitat loss
What is PFAS
forever chemical put on everything, gives us cancer
Based on PPP, what is the richest country in the world?
China
What US state has the highest total CO2 emissions AND what country?
California and China
What two environments are best for building windmills and solar panels?
desert and ocean
Name the term for China's practice of gifting certain animals to other countries as a sign of friendship.
panda diplomacy
Name the main two reasons for the massive amounts of food waste.
big fridges, don't like empty fridge
misinterpretation of expiration dates
Explain Diminishing Marginal Utility.
money is a ratio
the more you have, the less a dollar means
Relative Deprivation Theory
What the world's largest tertiary industry?
tourism
Rank the three types of renewable energy that we talked about from least desirable to most desirable
hydroelectric
wind
solar
Name at least three ways in which Australia attempted to control the rabbit population.
open hunting, carbon monoxide, rabbit fence, mosquito disease, RHDV
Explain how sanitary landfills are designed.
hole, hill
filter out leachate
What does the Human Development Index measure?
how well a country is doing socially
Explain why the Amazon Rainforest is experiencing so much deforestation.
soy and cattle
slash and burn agriculture + monocropping
What is considered (one of) the greatest man made environmental disasters ever?
Aral Sea
USSR cotton in desert
What is desertification?
soil erosion
loss of vegetation --> loss of topsoil
place becomes a desert
What are the main 2-3 problems with the US exporting our recycled materials?
shipping
great garbage patch
microplastics
What does the Gini Coefficient measure?
wealth equality
What three important functions do wetlands serve?
fish eggs
sponge
filter
Explain the Volkswagen Scandal.
new "clean diesel" cars
cheating the emission testing thing
Why does the US not recycle as much as Japan and Western European countries AND why do we not recycle as much as many developing countries?
US is big
US has money, stuff is cheap