Poverty and Economic Class
The point at which a household's income can't buy enough food to physically sustain its members.
What is extreme poverty?
The area needed to provide resources for humans.
What is biocapacity?
Water used indirectly via exports is called this.
What is embedded water (virtual water?)
Natural resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
When an area has too many people for a high standard of living.
What is overpopulation?
Making less than $1.90 a day qualifies as this type of poverty.
What is absolute poverty?
The hypothetical land area needed to meet all resource demands and waste.
What is the ecological footprint?
The total volume of water used to produce consumed goods and services.
what is water footprint?
Unprocessed oil from the ground.
What is crude oil?
When a region has more resources than people to use them.
What is underpopulation?
A condition defined by the lack of resources compared to those who have more.
What is relative poverty?
A country that uses fewer resources than it can regenerate.
What is an ecological creditor?
Reliable access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
What is water security?
The peak of oil production in a country or globally.
What is peak oil?
The maximum number of people an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
This global group has discretionary income for consumer goods, holidays, or even cars.
What is the new global middle class?
A nation that consumes more than its ecological budget.
What is an ecological debtor?
Water is physically unavailable.
What is physical water scarcity?
The interconnectedness of energy, food, and water supply.
What is the water-food-energy nexus?
He predicted population growth would outstrip food supply, causing famine.
These 2 billion people escaped poverty but are not yet in the NGMC.
What is the fragile middle class?
When global resource use exceeds Earth’s regenerative capacity.
What is overshoot day?
Water is present but inaccessible due to infrastructure or finances.
What is economic water scarcity?
Pipeline delivering gas from Russia to Europe under the Baltic Sea.
What is Nord stream?
Her theory stated that technology will increase food supply as population grows.