AP E S CH 1 QUESTIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, THEIR CAUSES, AND SUSTAINABILITY
1) What are the major themes of this book?
2) What keeps us alive? What is an environmentally sustainable society?
3) How fast is the human population growing? Using the rule of 70 caluculate how long it would take a country's population to double if their was a 1%, 2%, 4.3% or a 35% annual growth. Please explain the rule of 70 in your own words.
4) What is the difference between economic growth, economic development, and environmentally sustainable economic development?
5) What are the earth's main types of resources? How can they be depleted or degraded?
6) What are the principal types of pollution, and what can we do about pollution?
7) What are the basic causes of today's environmental problems, and how are these causes connected?
8) What are the harmful environmental effects of poverty and affluence?
9) What three major human cultural changes have taken place since humans arrived?
10) What are four scientific principles of sustainability and how can they help us build more environmentally sustainable and just societies?
Vocabulary
affluenza agricultural revolution biodiversity common-property resource conservation conservationist developed country developing country doubling time durability earth-centered environmental worldview ecological footprint ecologist ecology economic development economic growth environment environmental degradation environmental ethics environmental movement environmental revolution environmental science environmental scientist environmental wisdom worldview environmental worldview environmentalism environmentalist environmentally sustainable economic development environmentally sustainable society EPA exponential growth free-access resource frontier environmental worldview globalization |
gross domestic product (GDP) human-centered environmental worldviews hunter - gatherers industrial - medical revolution information and globalization revolution input pollution control LDC maximum sustainable yield MDC multiple use natural capital nonpoint source nonrenewable resource output pollution control per capita ecological footprint per capita GDP perpetual resource planetary management worldview point source pollutant pollution pollution cleanup pollution prevention recycling renewable resource reuse rule of 70 solar capital stewardship worldview sustainability sustainable development sustainable living sustainable yield tragedy of the commons |