Global Perspectives Sustainability / Poverty

The following is the best definition of poverty:

• It is a state or condition when a person or community have high standards of living.

• It is a state or condition when a person or community lacks financial resources and minimum standard of living.

• It is simply suffering.

• It is a state or condition when a person or community have no job even though they are able to provide themselves and their families.

The three pillars of sustainability are:

• Economy, Society and Global health

• Economic, Environmental and Social

• Business, Forest and Recreation

• All of the above

Social sustainability is the ability of a community to develop processes and structures which not only meet the needs of its current members but also the ability of future generations to maintain a healthy community.

• True

• False

One of these is not an inequality.

• Social inequality

• Income inequality

• Case Inequality

• Wealth inequality

How do you think you can achieve a balance between economic and environmental pillar?

• By growing in nature and investing in resources.

• Making campaigns and not destroy the nature.

• Making good factories that investigates in the environment.

• Whit money and work.

Sustainability has to do with these three except :

• Preserving and maintaining resources.

• The capacity to endure and continue.

• The ability of something to maintain itself in a long term.

• It has nothing to do with the need to preserve forest or practicing mixed cropping.

Poverty caused by a natural phenomenon is cyclical poverty.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an application of environmental sustainability.

• sustainable oil

• sustainable forestry

• sustainable monocrops

Sustainable agriculture, farmers often grow one crop (monocrop) which means they MUST grow a single crop year after year.

• True

• False

Tick all the things that we do which affect the state of the earth.

• Using fossil fuels

• Littering and coastal dune erosion

• Major air, water and land contamination

• commercial ocean use like over-fishing and by-catch which is destroying the ecosystem.