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An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment
What is environmental science?
depletion, degradation or waste of the Earth’s natural capital
What is Environmental Degradation?
growth in which some quantity, such as population size or economic output, increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time. First starts slowly then becomes enormous.
What is Exponential Growth?
a society that protects natural capital and lives off its income while also meeting the current and future basic resource needs of its people
What is an environmentally sustainable society?
all species have value in fulfilling their particular role within the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual role within the biosphere
What is the life centered worldview?
One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors of their nonliving environment
What is an ecosystem?
contamination of the environment by any chemical or agent such as noise or thermal energy at levels considered harmful to the health, survival, or activities of organisms
What is Pollution?
an individual’s set of assumptions and values concerning the natural world and what they think their role in managing it should be
What is an Environmental Worldview?
portion of renewable resource that can be used sustainably
What is Natural Income?
maintains that people are apart of, and dependent on nature. That Earth’s natural capital is for all species, not just humans
What is the Earth centered world view?
Materials and energy sources in nature that are essential or useful to humans
What are natural resources?
amount of land and water needed to supply population with renewable resources to absorb and recycle the waste and pollutions such resource use produces
What is an Ecological Footprint?
Exponential growth forms this letter when graphed
What is the letter J?
April 22, 1970
When was the first Earth Day?
Population growth, unsustainable resource use, Poverty, Lack of full-cost pricing for goods/ services, Increasing isolation from nature
What are the causes of environmental problems?
The capacity of Earth's natural systems that support life to maintain stability or to adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely
What is sustainability?
single identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment.
What is Point Source?
the study of varying beliefs about what is right or wrong with how people treat the environment
What is an environmental world view?
typically refers to the setting aside of areas of land that are either human-free, free of obvious marks of human influence like roads or fire pits, or whose sole human inhabitants are native people.
What is preservation?
means a high level of resource use
Affluence
Exist in a fixed amount or stock and take millions to billions of years to form
What is a Nonrenewable Resource?
a type of pollution in which pollutants come from many diffused sources that are hard to pinpoint.
What is Nonpoint Source?
sees the natural world as a support system for human life
What is the human centered worldview?
typically refers to attempts to make humans’ relationship with the environment sustainable while still extracting natural resources.
What is conservation?
States lend money without interest to lure businesses into the area
What are government subsidies?