Nations are agricultural, the birth rate is high, and the death rate is high.
What is the first stage of modern demographic transition?
100
A geographic region or nation could be stabilized or destabilized; the arms eventually could be used against the selling country; and, the recipient country could use the weapons in ways that were not intended by the United States
What are the consequences of the U.S. selling arms to the developing world?
100
A structural factor that enables American businesses to pollute our water supply, which is used by everyone, and leave the public to bear the cost of cleaning it up.
What is politics?
100
It encourages overconsumption;it uses a system of planned obsolescence; and, it demands profit maximization.
What is a capitalist economy?
100
A movement to improve community environments by eliminating toxic hazards.
What is environmental justice?
200
Characterized by relative powerlessness, rapid population growth, and his rates of poverty, hunger, and misery.
What is a developing nation?
200
The term used to describe the "exporting of goods by a business that has been banned or not approved for sale in the United States because the products are considered dangerous".
What is corporate dumping?
200
The pattern by which environmental hazards are greatest for poor people, especially minorities.
What is environmental racism?
200
The major underlying sources of our present environmental problems.
What are the culture and structure of our society?
200
A major obstacle to the United States adopting a comprehensive plan to curb pollution.
What is polluters' relationships to our federal system of government?
300
A three-stage pattern of population change occurring as societies industrialize and urbanize, resulting in a low stable population growth rate.
What is modern demographic transition?
300
A profit-oriented company engaged in business activities in more than one nation.
What is a transnational corporation?
300
The poor have dangerous jobs, are residentially segregated, and are more exposed to environmental dangers than the well-to-do.
What is environmental classism?
300
The chances throughout one's life cycle to live and experience the good things in life.
What are life chances?
300
The plants, animals, and microorganisms that supply people with the essentials of life.
What are our ecosystems?
400
A condition of life so degraded by disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, and squalor as to deny its victims the basic necessities.
What is absolute poverty?
400
Those who control the world's economy.
What are transnational corporations.
400
Farms, industry, and oil spills.
What are the major sources of water pollution?
400
When large corporations act with well thought deliberation in selecting specific organizations to promote disinformation on global warming.
What is information laundering?
400
The relationship between all living systems.
i.e. sea life, plant life, and human life.
What is the "Web of Life"?
500
In Oklahoma for a family of four, this number is set at
$ 22,350.
What is "The Poverty Line"?
500
The condition wherein individuals and families may become slaves by a choice forced by extreme poverty.
What is "new slavery"?
500
The way in which toxins travel from our large parking-lots and urban highways into our rivers, lakes, and bays.
What is "storm run-off"?
500
A temptation to view nature as plentiful and ours to use as we wish, as much and as often as we wish.
What is the cornucopia view of nature?
500
The two primary sources of our present environmental problems.
What is the culture and the structure of our society?