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.
Can be genetically modified by selective breeding or through a transgenic process (changing DNA in a laboratory by adding a gene from another organism).

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. This iron lung was more like a big room

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.
Right picture: Farmers in Yanche county, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, make a joint effort to tackle the process of desertification on Oct 26 by making a net to contain the sand in the Maowusu Desert.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. What was going on in 1918 to make this worse?
Emergent epidemic diseases:
1918 influenza pandemic
Ebola
HIV/AIDS
What was going on in 1918 to make this worse?
More people died in this than in WWI. Estimates range widely: 40 mil – 100 mil people died world wide.

13. 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

14. 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

15. “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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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).

19. 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

20. 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