Environmental Problems, their causes, and sustainability

Environmental Science

Ecology

Natural Capital

Ecosystem

Environmentalism

Renewable Energy

Green design_.

Water Conservation

Climate Control

Exponential growth

At a constant rate

Equally among the countries of the world

Exponentially

Slowly since 1963

Until 2000, when it began to stabilize

Gain in population

Resource use

Distribution of wealth in the population

Degree of industrialization

Annual birth rate

Conservative resource

Nonrenewable resource

Important resource

Renewable resource

Sustainable resource

Exist in a fixed quantity

Can replenish over a short period of time due to geological processes

Are depleted faster than they are replenished

Include metallic minerals which can be recycled or reused

Include energy resources such as coal which can be harvested with a sustainable yield

Renewable resources

Nonrenewable resources

Perpetual

Exhaustible resources

Sustainable

Annual market value of all goods produced within the country

Annual market value of services operating within the country

Disparity of wealth between individuals within the country

The total population at midyear

Comparison of individual purchasing power based on currency rates

Free-access resources

Government subsidies

Privately owned resources

Venture capital

Corporate revenue 13A.

They disrupt life-support systems for living organisms

They can damage property

They create nuisances within an environment

They contribute to the balance within an ecosystem

They can be a hazard to human health