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Chapter 1 - Environmental Issues
1) Which of the following is not included in sustainable human activities or behaviors?
Promoting consumption to improve quality of life.
2) What is an example of sustainable consumption?
Preparing a meal at home with food bought at local farmers market.
3) Nonrenewable resource is to renewable resource as _________ is to __________?
Limited supply, sustainable supply.
4) Environmental sustainability does not imply ______________________?
Present generations should continue exploiting natural resources at the cost of problems for future generations.
Chapter 2 - Sustainability Concepts
1) Environmental justice is reflected in ______________________?
The concern that the largest number of landfills, incinerators and sewage treatment plants found in low-income communities.
2) Why is the deep ecology worldview impractical for widespread adoption?
Human population size would have to decline drastically for it to work.
3) Why is it difficult to attain environmental sustainability based on the Western worldview?
It promotes an unlimited consumption of goods and services.
4) Which of the following statements reflects the Western worldview?
Humans have the right to modify the environment to benefit their well-being and high standard of living.
5) Which of the following is not associated with poverty?
Low life expectancy
Balanced nutrition
Inadequate access to health care
Illiteracy
6) For a country to progress from a less-developed country to a more-developed country, the country would have to_______________?
Raise its per capita income.
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