Climate
This phenomenon, caused by increased greenhouse gases, leads to a gradual rise in Earth's average temperature.
What is global warming?
Environmentalists advocate for this type of lifestyle, which seeks to reduce one's carbon footprint and maintain an ecological balance.
What is sustainability?
This is the name given to a geographic area where residents' access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is rare or non-existent.
What is a food desert?
This US conflict began in 1861, after decades of tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, state's rights, and westward expansion.
What was the Civil War?
This is the name given to someone who objects to serving in the armed services on the basis of their personal conviction to peaceful coexistence.
What is a conscientious objector?
This international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement?
Contrary to popular belief, this ubiquitous substance that we use every day is more costly and energy-intensive to recycle than to manufacture new.
What is plastic?
These types of agencies rescue billions of pounds of food processed by big corporations from being disposed of in landfills while offering non-profits affordable options to feed people who are experiencing food insecurity.
What is a food bank?
This federal holiday celebrates the date on which Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in 1865.
What is Juneteenth?
This is when two warring parties agree to a temporary halt of fighting so that peace talks can take place.
What is a ceasefire?
Climate change has led to the proliferation of this insect that spreads Dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus.
What is a mosquito?
This government agency, created in 1970, is charged with working to ensure that Americans have clean air, land, and water.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
This massive piece of legislation (over 900 pages) is re-examined roughly every five years and contains laws that cover agriculture, domestic and foreign food aid, and more.
What is the Farm Bill?
This movement emerged in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This doctrine of military ethics, endorsed by St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, suggests that the use of organized armed forces is morally justifiable through a series of criteria.
What is the “just war” theory?
This greenhouse gas is released by decaying garbage as well as the belching of cows and other sources.
What is methane?
This is a swirling area in the North Pacific Ocean, about twice the size of Texas, between Hawaii and California, containing a high concentration of floating plastic waste and debris.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
This federal program provides important nutritional support for low-paid working families, low-income older adults, people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other individuals and households with low incomes.
What is SNAP?
This discriminatory practice consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
This Catholic campaign seeks to redirect U.S. military spending towards social safety net programs.
What is Bread Not Stones?
This severe weather phenomenon is defined by its widespread, long-living, destructive, straight-line wind.
What is a derecho?
Also known as “forever chemicals”, these substances in non-stick cookware never break down and have been shown to cause cancer and other health-related problems.
What are “PFAs”?
While the typical worker’s salary has risen by 15%, the compensation for these individuals has increased by over 1,209% over the last 45 years.
What is a CEO?
This phrase, popularized by author Michelle Alexander, is used to describe racist policies that lead to disproportionate numbers of Black people being incarcerated in prisons throughout the United States.
What is the New Jim Crow?
This five-sided building houses the government department that has never passed a financial audit.
What is the Pentagon?