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30 Cards in this Set
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affluenza
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unsustainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism exhibited in the United States and other developed countries.
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biodiversity
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Variety of different species, genetic variability among individuals within each species, variety of ecosystems, and functions such as energy flow and metter cycling needed for the survival of species and biological communities.
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biological diversity
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see biodiversity
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common-property resource
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resource that people normally are free to use; eash user can deplete of degrade the available supply. Most are renewable and owned by no one.
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developed country
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country that is highly industrialized and has a high per capita GNP.
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developing country
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country that has low to moderate industrialization and low to moderate per capita GNP.
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ecological footprint
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amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person or population with the renewable resources they use and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use.
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ecology
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study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy
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economic depletion
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exhaustion of 80% of the estimated supply of a nonrenewable resource.
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economic development
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improvement of living standards by economic growth
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economic growth
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increase in the capacity to provide people with goods and services produced by an economy
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environment
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all external conditions and factors, living and nonliving, that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime
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environmental degradation
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depletion or destruction o a potentially renewable resource that is used faster than it is replenished
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environmental ethics
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human beliefs about what is wrong or right environmental behavior
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environmental revolution
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cultural change involving halting population growth and altering lifestles, political and economic systems, and the way we treat the environment so that we can help sustain the earth for ourselves and other species.
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environmental science
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an interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical sciences and social sciences tolerant of how the earth works, how we interact with the earth, and how to deal with environmental problems
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environmental wisdom worldview
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1. nature exists for all earth's species and we are not in charge of it
2. resources are limited, should not be wasted, and are not just for us 3. we sould encourage earth-sustaining forms of economic growth and discourage earth-degrading forms of economic growth 4. our success depends on learning to cooperate with one another and with the rest of nature |
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environmental worldview
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how people think the world works and what they think their role in the world should be
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environmentalism
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a social movement dedicated to protecting earth's life support systems
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environmentally sustainable economic development
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development that encourages forms of economic growth that meet the basic needs of the current generations of humans and other species without preventing future generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs
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environmentally sustainable society
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society that satisfies the basic needs of its people without delpeting of degrading its natural resouces and thereby preventing current and future generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs
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exhaustible resource
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see non-renewable resource
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exponential growth
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growth in which some quantity increases at a constant rate per unit of time
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free-access resource
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see common-property resource
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gross domestic product (GDP)
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annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations operating within a country
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global climate change
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changes in the earth's climate mostly as a result of changes in temperature and precipitation
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globalization
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process of global, social, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world
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input pollution control
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see pollution prevention
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less developed country (LDC)
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see developing country
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malnutrition
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faulty nutrition caused by a diet that does not supply an individual with enough protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed for good health.
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