Chapter 13: Rio's Agony
What is the concept discussed in the chapter deriving from comparison to others' wealth or unfulfilled expectations that drives crime, rebellion, violence, and hinders community cohesion in places like Rio's favelas?
Relative deprivation
This city on the border of Northern Mexico was used as an example in Chapter 14 to illustrate the impacts of the catastrophic convergence of the climate crisis and trade policy failures?
Ciudad Juárez
What did Senate Bill 1070 enable police officers and civilians to do in 2010?
Ordered all police officers to stop and interrogate any person who they suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. It permitted citizens to sue if they felt that police officers were not fulfilling their duties in these anti-immigrant activities.
What does Parenti call the dominant Northern response to climate instability characterized by militarized borders and aggressive anti-immigrant policing?
Armed lifeboat politics
What semiarid region in Brazil is subject to increased droughts and extreme weather variability, making subsistence farming challenging and unsustainable?
Nordeste
What Texan city is directly located across from Ciudad Juarez and is used as an example to highlight uneven development on the region?
El Paso
Name the author who wrote this quote in "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America" :
"We are witnessing how nations perish. We are entered upon the final act of our civilization. The last scene is the deconstruction of the nations. The penultimate scene, now well underway, is the invasion resisted."
Pat Buchanan
What fossil fuel company donated millions of dollars to support climate denial between 1998 and 2008?
Exxon
What is the name of the social movement in Brazil encompassing approximately 370,000 members in more than 1,000 communities that aims to occupy and redistribute land for farmers?
Movimento dos Trabalhadore Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
Parenti argues that this issue acts as a "threat multiplier" that intensifies the pre-existing political and economic vulnerabilities within Mexico?
Climate change
In 2006, what organization ordered all seven sub-groups to increase their annual arrest quotas from 125 to 1000 per year?
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
What group of developing countries did Bolivia work with at COP negotiations to push for binding emissions reductions?
G77
What primary factor prevents farmers from fully adopting long-term agroecological methods like agroforestry, which takes 3-5 years to become profitable?
Lack of secure land rights and reform
What is the maquiladora sector?
Factories in Mexico owned by foreign entities, often near the Mexico/US border aka Northern Mexico
What is "Reconquista" within the American context?
"Reconquista" translates to "conquest" in Spanish. Those who dabble within the Reconquista paranoia believe that Mexican illegal aliens are entering the US in order to have California, New Mexico and other Southwestern parts of the US returned to Mexican ownership.
What is the "soil robbing" analogy?
Just as capitalist agriculture "robs" the soil of nutrients, the global economy "robs" the atmosphere of its balance.
What were the years of military rule in Brazil categorized by the repression of workers organizations, rapid agricultural modernization without formal and/or equal land redistribution, and widespread rural unemployment?
1964-1985
Mexico is currently experiencing the worst ___ in the past 60 years?
Drought
From 1980-1990s, a pair of oil billionaires, the Koch Brothers, donated more than $100 million to a network of 35 Far Right policy and political organizations. What did this network produce through cable TV and talk radio?
Xenophobia, free market fanaticism and climate-change denial
How can economies get rid of the price gap between clean technology versus old dirty-tech alternatives?
Build large clean-tech markets that allow for similar economies of scale.