Sustainability
Using resources at a rate that they can be replenished.
What is sustainable?
Buy, Use, Throw away, Buy again.
What is consumption?
Individual that established the US Forest Service, the first National Parks, & Wildlife Refuges.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Heat in the Pacific Ocean is this type of quality.
What is low quality?
The economic status of Japan.
What is More Developed?
Old drink bottles that were collected, washed, and refilled.
What is reuse?
Smokestacks, Exhaust Pipes, Waste Pipes.
What is point source pollution?
Humans are in charge; Earth is for human benefit.
Human-centered worldview
Subatomic particles found in the nucleus of an atom.
Protons & Neutrons
Percent of world population in more developed countries.
What is 18%?
Wind, Solar, Geothermal
What is renewable energy?
D = 70/r
What is doubling time?
People are part of, and dependent on, nature.
Earth-centered worldview
Anytime energy is transferred, this is given off.
What is heat?
One adult in the United States has as much environmental impact as this many adults in the world's poorest countries, such as India.
What is 16?
Nonrenewable energy source that produces zero GHG emissions.
What is nuclear?
The human society is following this type of growth curve.
What is J-shape / Exponential?
All species have value in fulfilling biosphere roles.
Life-centered worldview
All organic substances contain this element.
What is Carbon?
Country classification with per capita income < $10,000.
Less-Developed Country
This diet choice is the most environmentally sustainable.
What is vegetarian?
Dealing with environmental problems after pollution occurs.
What is Pollution Clean-up?
Founded the EPA via Executive Order.
Who is Richard Nixon?
All organic substances have this type of Carbon bond.
What is single bond?
The average income per person that determines the economic status of a country.
What is per capita GDP?