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Increase at fixed percentage per unit time

Total of all living and nonliving things that affect any living organism

The study of how the earth works, we interact with the earth, and how to deal w environmental problems

Biological science that studies relationships between living organisms and environment

The ability of earths systems to survive changing environmental conditions

Natural resources and services that keep us alive

Warms the planet and supports photosynthesis

Concepts and ideas widely accepted by experts of natural or social science

Meets current and future needs of people for basic resources without compromising future generations

Increase in the capacity to provide people w goods and services

Annual market value of all goods and services produced by organizations operatimg within a country

GDP divided by total population at midyear

Improvment of human living standards by economic growth

Us, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and most European countries

Most of them in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Uses political and economic systems to encourage environmentally beneficial forms of economic development

Anything from the environment that meets our needs

Renewed continuously

Replenished rapidly at a rate equal to exhaustion

Highest rate renewable resource used w/out reducing supply

We exceed resource's natural replacement rate

Resources available to public at little or no chargr

Degradation of renewable free-access resources

Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply area w resources and absorb pollution produced by use

Average ecological footprint of an individual

Exist in fixed quantity

Involves collecting waste, processing it into new material, and selling producg

Using a resource over and over in same form

Presence of chemicals in high enough levels to threaten survival of living organisms

Pollutants at single, identifiable source

Pollutants are difficult to identify

Eliminates production of pollutants

Cleaning up pollutants after they have been produced

Inabillity to meet basic economic needs (concentrated in southern hemisphere)

Unsustainable addiction to overconsumption

Viewed continent as having vast resources to be conquered for human use

Set of values about what an individuals role in the world should be

Beliefs about what is right and wronf with how we treat the environment

Naturr exists to meet our needs and wants, should be managed by us, and used to our benefit

We have ethical responsibility to be responsible managers of the earth

We are totaly dependent on nature, it exists for ALL species

Sun warms planet and supports photosynthesis

Great variety of genes, species, ecosystems, and ecological processes have provided many ways to adapt to changing environmental conditions

Competition for resources among species places limit on how much one population can grow

Natural processes recycle all chemicals that living things need to survive and reproduce

Getting people with different views to communicate, relate, and work together to build understanding of what the world could and should be

Social movement dedicated to protecting the Earth's lifr support systems