EnvSci 1:3 What causes Env Problems, and why do they Persist

Exponential growth occurs when a quantity, such as global human population, changes at a fixed percentage per unit of time, such as a 0.5% or 2% increase per year over the previous year.

• True

• False

What is one environmental benefit of affluence?

• Increasing affluence allows for an increased capacity for resource consumption.

• Increasing affluence provides resources to apply toward the creation of environmentally beneficial technologies.

• Increasing affluence often leads to a desire to travel widely and frequently in order to see the world.

• Increasing affluence in more-developed nations leads to increased affluence in less-developed countries.

• Increasing affluence encourages consumers to spend more money on locally manufactured products.

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Many economists propose including the harmful environmental and health costs of producing and using goods and services in their market prices. What is this adjusted market price called?

• ecological deficit

• natural income

• subsidy

• full-cost pricing

• ax exemption

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About 900 million people live in extreme poverty, struggling to live on the equivalent of less than ____ a day.

• $1.90

• $3.25

• $5.15

• $7.50

• $10.00

According to the ____, all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.

• human-centered environmental worldview

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

• stewardship environmental worldview

• planetary management environmental worldview

Which of the following is NOT an example of natural capital degradation?

• soil erosion

• climate change

• water pollution

• reduced wildlife habitat

• exponential population growth

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Which factor is a major contributor to the degradation of natural capital associated with the pricing of consumable goods?

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way that they do not reflect the environmental damage caused by their production.

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to allow even poor people in less-developed nations to acquire them.

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to offset harmful environmental and health costs.

• Consumers are typically aware of the kinds of environmental damage resulting from the production of the item.

• Consumers in some local cultures purchase items that are expensive because of the social status it brings.

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Your ____________________ is your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.

• ecological mindset

• point-of-view

• environmental worldview

• mathematical worldview

Major causes of the environmental problems we face are ____________________, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the harmful environmental and health costs of goods and services in their market prices, and increasing isolation from nature.

• uncaring people

• increased human population

• fake news

• big business and politicians

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Which of these can Eco-Tourism NOT help?

• protection of habitats

• promote economic development of local economies

• reduce fuel consumption

• treat nature-deficit disorder

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