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• Leah Penniman


  Activist who founded Soul Fire Farm in New York and discussed the inequalities facing non-white farmers
• The livestock industry has contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions, specifically CO2 emissions
• Asia will contribute the most to the 50% increase in world energy use by 2050
• Soul Fire Farms is an example of a community program focused on helping the Afro-Indigenous Community
• Types of agriculture


  • Industrial
  • Agroecology
• The Industrial Revolution has rapidly increased the emissions of greenhouse gasses
• The United States produced the most amount of oil in 2014
• Food production and population growth


  Positively related
• Global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius every 100 years
• Evolution is one of the most basic natural reasons for infectious diseases to emerge
• A diet that increases the amount of fat in your bloodstream is the true cause of diabetes
• Globalization and the rise of infectious diseases


  Globalization led to the spreading of, and introduction of, various diseases to different parts of the globe
• Society now needs to vigorously develop clean energy to reduce pollution and mitigate climate change
• One of the primary environmental challenges in our future is decoupling resource use from economic growth
• Health pandemics


  • The black death
  • Covid pandemic
  • Zika virus in Brazil
  • HIV/AIDS pandemic
• Venezuela has the most oil reserves
• Fair trade


  Aims to equalize power by providing growers with better market information and credit terms
• Oil production has brought destruction to wildlands, caused the deaths of many sea life, and increased the likelihood of wildfires
• Oil is the most used energy in the world right now
• Food desert


  An urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food
• Green Revolution


  A process by which agriculture was privatized, and chemicals were mass employed within agriculture and farming in an effort to increase food production
• Countries that sign up to the Kyoto Protocol and are unable to make their target within the timeframe will be penalized by the international court
• Hubbert's 1956 prediction was that oil production in the U.S. would follow a bell-shaped curve
• The amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is one of the most consistent variables that leads to temperature fluctuations
• Processed meat was listed as the main cause of diabetes in the documentary "What the Health"
• Kyoto Accord


  An international treaty with a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, enforced in 2005
• Advanced degrees in international studies are crucial for securing high-level positions in international fields
• Energy organizes economic production and influences dynamics of production and consumption
• GATS and IPR influence trade regulations and protection of innovations
• The Swedish government implemented a CO2 emission tax, which is why Sweden's GDP increased from 1990 to 2013 while their CO2 emissions gradually decreased
• Methods of agriculture


  • Industrial
  • Agroecology
• Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement
• New methods of soil re-enrichment were not part of the Green Revolution
• Nuclear energy is the best option to replace fossil fuels while being able to provide energy to the whole world
• Oil was not initially considered a viable commodity because it was geologically and geographically dispersed and required expensive infrastructure for extraction
• The peak oil theory has prompted a shift towards more sustainable energy sources
• Reducing Shein's large scale of manufacturing clothing and accessories aligns with de-production
• Renewable energy has quadrupled in the past 10 years in the United States
• Reasons why nuclear energy is not a viable substitute for fossil fuels in the present day


  • It is non-renewable
  • It is an expensive investment to create nuclear plants
  • Nuclear waste
• The USA is the number one oil producer country