Toward a Sustainable Future

In what year was the 1st Earth Summit?

• 1990

• 1992

• 1996

• 2001

What agreement was passed at the 1st Earth Summit that was to have industrialized countries help developing countries become industrialized without degrading the environment?

• Agenda 21

• CITES

• EIS

• Ban on Whaling

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What is an environmental impact statement?

• combined effect of all the factors that limit population growth

• study of how humans interact with the environment

• an assessment of the effect that a proposed project or law will have on the environment

• method that concentrates on protecting the entire ecosystem

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THe Earth Summit was

• designed to force all nations of the world to submit to an international environmental policy

• intended to help diverse nations develop common environmental policy guidelines

• a corporate convention

• a complete failure as an instrument of policy

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At the Earth Summit, rich and poor nations

• agreed that theirneeds were exactly the same

• agreed to disagree

• realized that their needs were different

• could not reach agreement on any matters of substance

Most of the agreements drawn up at the Earth Summit

• became international law

• were nonbinding

• will be administered by the United Nations

• will expire after 5 years.

What organization is responsible for the laws limiting whaling?

• International Whaling Commission (IWC)

• United Nations (UN)

• United States (US)

• Wildlife Federation (WF)

The function of an environmental impact statement is

• to clarify the effect that a project would have on the environment

• to generate a record of the ongoing impact to the environment of existing structures

• to satisfy international legal requirements

• to limit development to a bare minimum

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State and local environmental regulations

• are generally less strict than federal standards

• are generally more strict than federal standards

• may be more or less strict than federal standards

• are nonexistent; all environmental regulation takes place at the federal level

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Environmental impact statements

• must be filled out by anyone carrying out any project that has any effect on the environment

• are filled out for both the state and federal projects

• are filled out for nearly all federal projects that have significant effects on the environment

• are no longer required