Anthropocene
This suffix means "era"
What is -cene?
The country where environmental justice as a concept/set of movements first emerged
James' Watts invented a more efficient one
What is steam engine?
Thomas Malthus' home country
What is England?
Term for when pharma companies explore to locate plants with potentially lucrative medical properties
What is bioprospecting?
The detonation of these starting in 1945 could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene
What are nuclear weapons?
Term for violence that unfolds over long time frames
What is slow violence?
Country that was the location of the First Industrial Revolution
What is Britain?
Tree who's bark provides protection from/help with malaria
The earliest potential start date for the anthropocene that we discussed in this class
What is the domestication of plants and animals?
Name of a primary source from the early 1990s that we read in class.
What is principles of environmental justice?
Countries that were the locations of the second Industrial Revolution
What is Britain, Germany, and the US?
Author of the Population Bomb
Who is Paul Ehrlich?
Name of a plant from the Americas that can cause vomiting
What is Ipecacuanha?
An alternative name for the anthropocene that emphasizes the role money and industry played
What is the capitalocene?
Movement in Brazil led by mostly indigenous people living in the rainforest
What is the Rubber Tappers Union?
American industrialist who played major role in emergence of the importance of the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
Book by Mike Davis that looked at the intersection of El Nino and imperialism in causing famines in the late 1800s
What is Late Victorian Holocausts?
Name of a protocol to guide bioprospecting and use of genetic resources
What is the Nagoya Protocol?
An alternative name for the anthropocene that takes enslavement and agricultural developments as a key element
What is the plantationocene?
Name of a movement in Indian resisting development and appropriation of forests
What is the Chipko Movement?
Name of Japanese mission to learn about industrialization
What is the Iwakura Mission?
Agricultural change that vastly increased global food supply
What is the Green Revolution?
Plant from the Americas used to ease constipation
What is Jalap?