ES 1.3 Quiz

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

Resource use per person is higher in the United States than it is in middle-income countries like China.

• True

• False

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

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• human-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

• planetary management environmental worldview

• stewardship environmental worldview

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

• tax exemption

• subsidy

• full-cost price

What is one environmental benefit of affluence?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

• $5.00

• $1.25

• $10.00

• $7.50

• $3.00