History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 30 (5/4/00)

 

Topic  Human intervention and ecological thinking  Examples  Pesticides  Antibiotics  The Green Revolution

Names and terms      Ireductionism  dilute-and-disperse  dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane = DDT (discovered 1939)  Rockefeller Foundation  food chain Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) antibiotics  penicillin (discovered 1929)  sulfonamides (sulfa drugs)  population explosion  hybrid corn  high-yielding varieties  non-governmental organizations (NGOs)  Norman Borlaug  monocropping vs intercropping  integrated pest management  nitration, eutrophication

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