Vocabulary: Consumerism and sustainability

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use up (a resource).

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consume

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a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

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sweatshop

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Choose the correct word that is related to the following definition : a wide search over an area in order to obtain something, especially food or provisions.

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forage

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a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions.

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factory farming

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The action or system of exchanging goods or services without using money.

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barter

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Name of this object:

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dumpster

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´´a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span. Such activities could include securing water, food, fodder, medicine, shelter, clothing.´´

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livelihood

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sustainability means: consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.

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TRUE

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Unsustainability refers to something that cannot continue at the same rate.

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TRUE