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25 Cards in this Set
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Developed Countries |
Include the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and most European countries.
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Developing Countries |
Most of them in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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Ecological Footprint |
The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply and area with resources and to absorb the wastes and pollution produced by such resources use
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Ecology |
A biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment.
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Economic Development |
Is the improvement of human living standards by economic growth
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Environmental Degradation |
When we exceed a resource's natural replacement rate the available supply begins to shrink
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Enviornmental Ethics |
Is concerned with your beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment
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Environmental Science |
The study of how the earth works, how we interact with the world, and how to deal with the environmental problems.
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Environmentalism |
A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life-support systems for us and other species
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Exponential Growth |
In which a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
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Natural Capital |
The natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies
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Nonpoint Sources |
Of pollutants are larger, dispersed, and often difficult to identify
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Nonrenewable Resources |
Exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the earth's crust
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Point Sources |
Of pollutants are single, identifiable sources
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Pollution |
Is the presences of chemicals at high enough levels in air,water, soil, or food to threaten the health, survival, or activities of humans or other living things
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Pollution Cleanup |
Which involves cleaning up or diluting pollutants after they have been produced
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Poverty |
Is the inability to meet one's basic economic needs and is considered mostly in the southern hemisphere
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Recycling |
Involves collecting waste materials, processing them into new materials, and selling them
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Renewable Source |
Replenished rapidly. |
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Resource |
Anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants. |
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Reuse |
Is using a resource over and over in the same form. |
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Social Capital |
Making the shift more sustainable so societies and economies involves building what sociologists call |
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Solar Capital |
Energy From the sun |
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Stewardship Worldview |
Holds that we can manage the earth for our benefits but that we can managers, of earth
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Sustainability |
Is the ability of the earth's various systems, including human culture systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely
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