HIST 106 UBC
anthropocene - correct answer referring to the current geological age, loosely defined as when Earth's climate and geography became predominantly shaped by human activity
Green Revolution - correct answer spear-headed by Norman Borlaug. a period of intense reform of traditional...
anthropocene - correct answer ✔✔referring to the current geological age, loosely defined as when
Earth's climate and geography became predominantly shaped by human activity
Green Revolution - correct answer ✔✔spear-headed by Norman Borlaug. a period of intense reform of
traditional agricultural practices in favor of artificially increasing crop yield through GMO crops and more
pesticide use etc etc
nature-deficit disorder - correct answer ✔✔condition describing children who don't want to play in
nature for prolonged periods of time because they are bored by it / more interested in technology.
when adults don't encourage their children to play in nature because there is perceived danger and also
no point
Garden City - correct answer ✔✔method of urban planning introduced by Ebenezer Howard, where
cities should appropriately allocate large spaces for parks / uncultivated lands -> "greenbelts"
annihilation of space and time - correct answer ✔✔with regards to the steam and coal regime:
Wolfgang Schivelbusch theorized that with the standardization of time zones and steam technology
making the world smaller, there was a perception shift.
=> compression of space and time through the use of technology
Albert Howard - correct answer ✔✔English organic farmer, seen as one of the key figures whose
philosophies were adopted by the Organic Farming Revolution
agrarianism - correct answer ✔✔concept that places higher value in rural, self-sustainable farm society /
lifestyle of a farmer over urban society / lifestyle of a paid worker. tied to husbandry
First Law of Petropolitics - correct answer ✔✔petroleum-driven states are fundamentally anti-
democratic
, tar sands - correct answer ✔✔mix of clay, sand, water, and bitumen. can be mined in places like Alberta
and then refined to extract the bitumen for petroleum
Bridget Driscoll - correct answer ✔✔British lady, first ever victim of a car accident. normalized the
concept of roadkill :(
Jane Jacobs - correct answer ✔✔woman who did a lot of prominent work in urban studies
=> The Organic City
Anglo-Dutch Wars - correct answer ✔✔series of battles between the British and the Dutch. major wins
were decided by the climate and the wind direction at the time because the performance of battleships
depended on the favor of the wind
Vancouverism - correct answer ✔✔urban design modeled after thin skyscrapers, minimum of first three
floors of a building having street amenities, and mixing of high-low structures to allow views of nature
nightsoil - correct answer ✔✔poop of urban dwellers collected during the night, used for manure. was
collected and used effectively in Asia for agriculture.
Le Corbusier - correct answer ✔✔another name for this French architect who founded a lot of modern
architectural concepts like skyscrapers. key concept was high density, efficiency ("City as a machine"),
and high-speed transit
=> The Radiant City
pemmican - correct answer ✔✔Native American / Aboriginal method of preserving food for a long time.
Really good source of energy, was inspiration for granola bars. Important because it increased efficiency
of humans during the somatic energy regime of the Fur Trade
input treadmill - correct answer ✔✔phenomenon describing the reshaping of nature by using chemicals
and gene technology, and how the green revolution has altered the input-output ratio of agriculture
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