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Ch.24 Notes

Ch.24 Notes. Big Idea : The Green Revolution produced food for the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture. Big Idea : Medical innovations increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives. Polio Vaccine Antibiotics.

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Ch.24 Notes

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  1. Ch.24 Notes

  2. Big Idea: The Green Revolution produced food for the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture.

  3. Big Idea: Medical innovations increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives. • Polio Vaccine • Antibiotics Polio, an infection which damages the motor neurons of the spinal cord, was also known to cause respiratory or throat paralysis

  4. Big Idea: Energy technologies including the use of petroleum and nuclear power raised productivity and increased the production of material goods. A look at modern TX energy, just for funsies

  5. Really Big Idea: During a period of unprecedented global population expansion, humans fundamentally changed their relationship with the environment. We have heard plenty about the bad…here is some good – thanks Singapore! Currently under construction – will have photovoltaic walls (solar energy) and a biogas plant inside, all with natural ventiliation.

  6. Big Idea: As human activity contributed to deforestation, desertification, and increased consumption of the world’s supply of fresh water and clean air, humans competed over these and other resources more intensely than ever before.

  7. Really Big Idea: Disease, scientific innovations, and conflict led to demographic shifts.

  8. Big Idea: Diseases associated with poverty persisted, while other diseases emerged as new epidemics and threats to human survival. In addition, changing lifestyles and increased longevity led to a higher incidence of certain diseases.

  9. Endemic: A disease that is common to a certain people or region. Epidemic: Rapid spread of an infectious disease in a certain people or region Pandemic: Same as epidemic, but whole very large regions or whole world.

  10. Diseases associated with poverty: • Malaria • Tuberculosis • Cholera How can disease be associated with poverty? What’s the connection? • Unhealthy living conditions • Poor nutrition = weak immune system • Lack of health services

  11. Emergent epidemic diseases: • 1918 influenza pandemic • Ebola • HIV/AIDS What was going on in 1918 to make this worse?

  12. Disease associated with changing lifestyles: • Diabetes • Heart diseases • Alzheimer’s disease Big Idea: More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility and transformed sexual practices. Not easy

  13. Big Idea: Movements throughout the world protested the inequality of environmental and economic consequences of global integration. • Greenpeace • Green Belt Movement in Kenya • Earth Day

  14. “We ‘bear witness’ to environmental destruction in a peaceful, non-violent manner. We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate. In exposing threats to the environment and finding solutions we have no permanent allies or adversaries. We ensure our financial independence from political or commercial interests.”Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA Executive Director

  15. Really Big Idea: People conceptualized society and culture in new ways: • Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender and religion. • In much of the world, access to education, as well as participation in new political and professional roles, became more inclusive in terms of race, class, and gender.

  16. Challenges to assumptions about race, class, gender and religion: What are some examples you already read about? • UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (sought to protect children, women, refugees) • Global feminist movements • Liberation theology in Latin America • Islamic renewal movements

  17. Negritude movement = A stand against colonialism and an assertion of cultural identify led by French-speaking Caribbean and African writers living in Paris. (inspired by the Harlem Renaissance).

  18. Increased access to education and political & professional roles: What are some examples you already read about? • Women’s right to vote and hold office • Increase in female literacy and college attendance • US Civil Rights Act of 1965 • End of Apartheid

  19. Caste and reservation in the Indian Constitution of 1949 A system to end/weaken caste discrimination in government positions and government funded universities. Upper castes: 31% population, 50.5% gov’t positions & college Other Backward castes: 41% population, 27% gov’t positions & college Scheduled castes & Scheduled tribes: 29% population, 22.5% gov’t positions & college

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