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What is sustainability?
Natural Capital and Triple-Bottom-Line
Challenges and Responses
Recent History-The Last 200 Years
History of Sustainability
100
Give an example of a system. Hint: used in powerpoint
Earth
100
Is "going green" the same as being sustainable?
No
100
How many mass extinctions has there been?
5
100
What happens to resources as populations increase?
Resources decline
100
Which U.S. President was a strong advocate for conservation?
Theodore Roosevelt
200
The identity of a system is always _______.
More than the sum of its parts
200
Being sustainable means not using up resources beyond their capacity to ________.
Regenerate
200
Within how many years will a quarter of all animals and a third of all amphibians become extinct?
30 years
200
What type of community is nature?
Interconnected
200
What is the name of the chemical disaster that occurred in the 1970s?
Love Canal Disaster
300
What is a system?
An organized set of interconnected parts
300
Sustainability is the ability to _______ to change.
Adapt
300
How often does a person die from hunger?
Every 3.6 seconds
300
What was the general belief in Western culture?
Economic and societal growth could go on forever
300
The transformation from conservation to ecology happened in what century?
20th century
400
Characteristics of a system are infinite diversity and dynamic _________.
Equilibrium
400
What are the 3 E's in Triple Bottom Line?
Environment, Economics, Equity
400
What type of discipline is sustainability?
Multidisciplinary
400
What is the relationship between population growth rate and and resource growth rate?
Population-Exponential Resource-Linear
400
What was the first act passed in regards to sustainability?
Lacey Act of 1900
500
Systems and processes that are able to operate and persist on their own over long periods of time.
What is sustainability
500
The Triple Bottom Line is also known as what? Hint: 3 P's
Planet, People, Profit
500
What does it mean to be multidisciplinary?
Brings together knowledge from more than one academic field
500
Who was the first person to go against the theory of Western culture?
Thomas Malthus
500
What was the Lacey Act of 1900?
Made interstate transport of illegally killed wildlife a federal crime.