What was the Green Revolution, and what were its environmental and social consequences?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
?This occurred in the 1950s when industrial agribusinesses sought to create more high-yield varieties (HYV) to increase productivity worldwide. It resulted in soil depletion and contamination, loss of nutritional value in plants and loss of diversity in cultigens, and decreasing resistance to pests and diseases over time. It also disrupted social organization on the level of the family.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Nation-states are
A. parts of other states. B. otherwise known as countries. C. defined by their lack of ethnic identity. D. ethnically homogeneous. E. the same as tribes and ethnic groups.
Refer to the figure below. If 80 units of sunglasses are produced, sunglasses are ________, and area ________ graphically represents the deadweight loss.
A) overproduced; D
B) overproduced; C
C) underproduced; C
D) underproduced; D
A critical event that influenced artist Frida Kahlo was:
a. A profound religious experience. b. A visit to the Soviet Union in 1932. c. A visit to the United States in 1938. d. The Mexican Revolution of 1910. e. Her long love affair with artist Pablo Picasso.