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1. World Affairs
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cap and trade | market-based system to incentivize cutting CO2 emissions |
| secular | long-Term change that goes only one way |
| transnational | related to the world as a whole, too big for one country or group of countries to handle |
| tragedy of the commons | misuuse of a collective good, harms all in the population (Mexico, water) |
| arable | usable for food growing |
| stagflation | slow exonomic growth plus inflation |
| futures | contracts to sell commodity at certain prices in the future, therefore a bet that it will go up or down |
| desiccation | drying out |
| cyclical | changes that come and go like a pendulum swing |
| collective good | something that all use or share, for free like air and water |
| g8 | "group of eight" annual meeting of heads of eight rich nations, an informal talking shop |
| barrel | 42 gallons, world standard measure for oil |