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30 Cards in this Set
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E-Waste |
Copper, gold, lead, aluminium |
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Montreal Protocol |
Ozone layer depletion |
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The Cold War |
NATO and the Warsaw Pact |
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The Tar Sands |
Arsenic, lead, mercury |
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Security Council |
Permanent members-France, USA, Russia, UK, China |
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New Urbanism |
The return to more traditional, walkable communities |
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Bioaccumulation |
Increasing concentrations of chemicals in wildlife |
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Nelson Mandela |
Terrorist and Nobel Peace Prize winner |
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Motives for terrorism |
Rational, psychological and cultural |
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SLAPP |
A strategic lawsuit from companies placed in response to a boycott |
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Janjaweed |
“Devils on horseback” |
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Geopolitics |
The interplay of geography and politics at the national or international level |
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Water issues |
Chemical, agriculture, sewage, wetlands, groundwater |
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Kyoto Protocol |
Followed up by the Bali Conference and Paris (COP21) |
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State Terrorism |
Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Libya, N Korea, USA |
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Soft Laws |
Not legally binding but increases the likelihood of countries signing an agreement |
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Synergistic relationship |
Extinction of sea otter, explosion of sea urchins-destruction of kelp forests |
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Kyoto’s Failures |
Canada, USA, and Australia |
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Gaia |
Concerns the earths biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil |
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NATO |
Threat to one is a threat to all |
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Carrying capacity |
The number of people that the worlds resources can support using the technology that exists at that time |
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Birth dearth |
When low fertility rates cause a countries population to decline |
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Xenophobia |
A dislike of foreigners, chauvinism, racial intolerance |
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Modern day slavery |
Tea pickers (Kenya) sugarcane cutters (Brazil) |
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Famine |
The temporary loss of food leading to thousands of deaths |
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Demographic vocabulary |
Birth rates, life expectancy, dependency load |
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Bidding down |
Competition for investment by MNC's can lead to countries doing this with wages, human rights, environment |
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Demography |
Explains the causes and effects of population change within communities, nations, and the world |
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Subsistence farming |
When farmers grow many crops on little land for diet |
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Neocolonialism |
MNC's World Bank/IMF, developed country governments |
