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water vapour, methane
sun --> electrical energy
what is solar
demographic shift of populations moving from rural areas into built-up, industrialized settlements
urbanisation
when companies use marketing to falsely present an environmentally friendly image rather than actually adopting sustainable practices.
greenwashing
on route to full recovery
Stratospheric Ozone
treaty that helped the ozone layer recover
Montreal Protocol
Most of the environmental damage from electric vehicles happens before they are even used.
battery production
model consists of five stages and describes the changing levels of birth and death rates in a human population over time
economic principle ensures that the financial burden of stopping, managing, and cleaning up environmental damage is placed on the entity that caused it
polluter-pays-principle
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79%
% of Nitrogen in the atmosphere
This refers to the Earth's stock of natural resources which provides "natural income" in the form of goods (like timber) and services (like flood prevention)
Natural Capital
secondary pollutant is created when nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide react with water and oxygen,
acid rain
traditional environmental economics, this specific branch of economics views the human economy as a direct subsystem embedded within the Earth's larger biosphere
ecological economics
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How old BISP is
large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system—like deploying space mirrors or ocean fertilization—that treats the symptoms of climate change rather than the cause.
geoengineering
This concept describes a country's ability to ensure access to affordable and reliable energy, which can be improved by diversifying sources and reducing reliance on imports.
Energy security
person who predicted that population growth could exceed food availability
Malthus
legal trend involves granting rights and specific protections to natural entities (like rivers or mountains) similar to the way rights are granted to corporations
legal personhood
From the Greek for "label," it's a course outline of a school class
syllabus
process is used to test the validity of global climate models by running their equations backward from the present time to see if they accurately predict past events
hindcasting
This formal process is used in development projects to establish a baseline and evaluate the possible environmental, social, and economic impacts before the project is completed
EIA
A population can keep growing even if people have fewer children.
Population Momentum
traditional ethical framework assumes that good people will do good actions, evaluating morality by focusing on the character of the individual rather than the consequences of the action itself
virtue ethics
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