Sustainability
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Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse Gases
Contamination of the atmosphere by the introduction of pollutants from human and natural sources.
Air Pollution
Swedish High school student that created "Fridays for the Future"
Greta Thunberg
Beef
a philosophy that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that all products are reused, and nothing is sent to landfills or incinerators
Zero Waste
A fee placed on this substance in order to push the switch to renewable energy
Carbon Tax
What percentage of the ocean is made up of plastic waste?
80%
Famous actor who assisted in the production of the movie, "before the flood"
Leonardo Dicaprio
Number of water bottles Americans drink per hour.
2,500,000 bottles
the separation, collection, processing, marketing, and reuse of unwanted material
Recycling
measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide
Which company produces the most waste?
Exxon Mobil
President that pushed hard for climate activism
Jimmy Carter
How long does carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere once it has been emitted?
A few hundred years
an activity that does not change atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Carbon Neutral
the process by which carbon continually moves from the atmosphere to the earth and then back to the atmosphere
Carbon Cycle
Which country is the most significant pollutant in the world?
China
Father of conservation, a good friend to Teddy Roosevelt
John Muir
True or False: Without the Greenhouse Effect, Earth's temperature would be unsuitable for most forms of life.
False
exploiting a consumer by disingenuously marketing products or services as environmentally friendly, with the goal of gaining public approval and sales
Greenwashing
Who discovered greenhouse gases?
John Tyndall
How many deaths a year is air pollution responsible for?
29,000
American Biologist, conservationist, and author of "Silent Spring"
Rachel Carson
Which racecar "league" has commited to producing zero carbon emissions by a championship in 2030
Formula One