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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Exponential | growth in which quantity increases at a constant rate. |
| Ecology | the study or relationships between living organisms and their relationship. |
| Solar Capital | energy from the sun |
| Natural Capital | resources from the earth |
| Environmentalism | a social movement dedicated to protecting life support systems for all species |
| Sustainability | a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. |
| Gross Domestic Product | GDP |
| Capital | wealth |
| Economic Growth | an increase in the capacity of a country to provide people with goods and services. |
| Economic Development | the improvement of living standards by economic growth. |
| Resource | anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants. |
| Perpetual | a resource that is renewed constantly. Ex. Solar energy |
| Renewable | a resource that is replenished fairly rapidly. Ex trees |
| Tragedy of the Commons | the degradation of renewable free-access resources |
| Sustainable yield | highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely |
| Environmental degradation | caused by exceeding the resources natural replenishment |
| Ecological Footprint | the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person with renewable resources and to dispose of their waste. |
| Nonrenewable resources | resources that exist in a fixed quantity. Ex; coal, oil and natural gas |
| Economically depleted | when the cost of extracting and using the resource exceeds its economic value. |
| Point sources | pollutants that are single, identifiable sources. Ex. drain pipe from a factory |
| Nonpoint sources | pollutants that are dispersed and often difficult to identify. Ex pesticides spayed into the air. |
| Pollution Prevention | Input pollution control, which reduces or eliminates pollution |
| Pollution Clean Up | Output pollution control, cleaning up the pollution |
| Poverty | the major threat to human health and the environment |
| "Affluenza" | a trend of buying more stuff than one needs in the search of fulfillment and happiness |
| Anthropogenic | means created by man. |
| Environment | everything that affects an living organism |
| Living sustainably | living off natural income and not depleting or degrading the earth's natural capital that supplies the biological income |
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