"The whole of history is just a narration of the work of adjustment, and the combat, between extra-human nature and nature."
Who is Jose Marti
100
DDT
What is Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (insecticide)
100
Location of the worst civilian nuclear accident:
What is Chernobyl, Ukraine (USSR)
100
This political party implemented apartheid in South America during the 1940's.
What is The National Party
100
These five changes dominated the evolution of communications technology.
What is language, writing, printing, mass literacy, and electronic transmission
200
"It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities."
Who is Marcus Terentius Varro
200
CFC
What are Chlorofluorocarbons
200
Nuclear weapon manufacturing and dumping site for the Soviet Union:
What is Mayak Complex, Arctic Ocean
200
After 1970, this encouraged the development of new technology to reduce the impact of cars on the environment.
What are New regulations, lawsuits, and high energy prices
200
This political movement served as a platform for nature preservstion and reflected a backlash against urbanization and industrialization.
What is Nationalism
300
"Men are too eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared."
Who is Lucretius
300
UNESCO
What is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
300
Location of oil wells set on fire during the Gulf War:
What is Kuwait
300
In 1700, these five cities in the world had a population of more than half a million people.
What is Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, and London
300
This research project was launched by the United Nations in 1971.
What is Man and the Biosphere
400
"The Allies floated to victory on a wave of oil."
Who is Lord Curzon
400
USSR
What is the United Soviet Socialist Republic
400
Country that promoted transmigration policy to populate outlying islands:
What is Indonesia
400
The nickname for the cluster that arose from the Industrial Revolution that centered on coal, iron, steel, and railroads.
What is The Coketown Cluster
400
The first international conference on the enviornment was held in:
What is Stockholm 1972
500
"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Who is Genesis 1:26-29
500
IUCN
What is the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
500
Center of Venezuelan oil production:
What is Lake Maracaibo
500
In 1920, this political movement in Germany recieved support from small buisness and artisans who were unable to compete with mass production.
What is Nazism
500
These constraints will shape the future.
What is the planet's capacity to absorb the wastes, by-products, and impacts of our actions