The emergence of these two industies parallel the emergence of capitalist economies, mass environmental degradation and a rise in disease and illness.
What are the sugar and beef industries.
100
The "Agriculture Marketing Board" is known today as.
What is the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).
100
Where the first Earth Summit was held.
Where is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
100
Canada is the largest global producer of this type of natural ore.
What is Uranium?
200
These regions suffer because of the mass consumption of core countries.
What are peripheral countries.
200
The year that the Canadian Wheat Board was established.
When was 1935.
200
A main criticism of the Copenhagen Accord.
What is it's lack of legal enforcement.
200
This policy was was established in 1960 to give Canadian oil producers exclusive rights to distribute oil to Canadian consumers west of the Ottawa River line.
What is the National Oil Policy?
300
The 3 major factors that have contributed to the mass alteration of the world's environment.
What are Population, Technology and Consumption?
300
The main differences between horticulture and intensive agriculture.
What is scale & environmental impact.
300
The sustainable development program that was introduced at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
What is Agenda 21.
300
This policy, established in the early eighties, was meant to give the federal government control over the price of petroleum.
What is the National Energy Program?
400
This approach, dubbed by Gleissman, is the one Ronald Nigh is taking in his project in Mexico where indigenous methods are used to regenerate lost rainforests.
What is an "agro-ecological approach".
400
Three examples of ecosystems being altered due to
contemporary industrialized agriculture.
What are forests, prairies removed, rivers rerouted and/or the draining of lakes.
400
The names of the BASIC countries who drafted the Copenhagen Accord.
Who are Brazil, South Africa, India, China and the United States.
400
Approimately 3000sq km of the boreal forest in Canada is set to be developed into these.
What are open pit mines?
500
This man, who is currently Obama's chief economic advisor, was part of the Clinton Administartion and whose resume includes "Chief economist of the World Bank" and "President of Harvard University" justified exporting pollution from core countries to peripheral countries by applying monetary value to human life.
Who is Lawrence Summers.
500
Slaughterhouses became more efficient and industrialized kill floor conveyors were developed giving inspiration to these.
What was Henry Ford's Automoblie Assembly line.
500
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted on this day.
When was December 11, 1997.
500
This pipeline was originally built from Alberta to Wisconsin, and now spans over 5000km as the longest crude oil pipeline in the world.