Also, if anyone could be as kind as to help me answer any or all of the following other questions:
3. Distinguish among environment, ecology, environmental science, and environmentalism.
4. Distinguish between solar capital and natural capital (natural resources).
5. What is an environmentally sustainable society? Distinguish between living on the earth’s natural capital and living on the renewable biological income provided by this capital. How is this related to the sustainability of (a) the earth’s life-support system and (b) your lifestyle?
6. How rapidly is the world’s population growing? How many people does this growth add each year?
7. Distinguish between economic growth, gross domestic product, and economic development. Distinguish between developed countries and developing countries and give four characteristics of each category.
8. List five pieces of good news and five pieces of bad news about economic development.
9. What are perpetual resources and renewable resources? Give an example of each.
10. What are sustainable yield and environmental degradation? Give five examples of environmental degradation.
11. Define and give three examples of common-property resources. What is the tragedy of the commons? Give three examples of this tragedy on a global scale. List two ways to deal with the tragedy of the commons.
12. What is the ecological footprint per person? What useful information does it give us about the use of renewable resources?
13. What is a nonrenewable resource? Draw a full production and depletion curve for a nonrenewable resource and distinguish between a physically depleted resource and an economically depleted resource.
14. Distinguish between reuse and recycling, and give an example of each.
15. What is pollution? Distinguish between point sources and nonpoint sources of pollution. List three types of harm caused by pollution.
16. Distinguish between pollution prevention (input pollution control) and pollution cleanup (output pollution control). What are three problems with relying primarily on pollution cleanup? Why is pollution prevention better than pollution control?
17. According to environmentalists, what are five basic causes of the environmental problems we face?
18. List five ways in which poverty is related to environmental quality, peoples’ quality of life, and premature deaths of poor people. Why does it make sense for a poor family to have a large number of children?
19. What is affluenza and what are its harmful environmental effects? Are you infected with the affluenza virus?
20. How can affluence help improve environmental quality?
21. Describe a simple model of relationships between population size, resource consumption per person, and technology, and overall environmental impact. How do these factors differ in developed and developing countries?
22. From an environmental standpoint, are things getting better or worse?
23. What is an environmental worldview? Distinguish between the planetary management, stewardship, and environmental wisdom environmental worldviews. Which one comes closest to your own environmental worldview?
24. List the five major environmental risks in terms of the estimated number of premature deaths per year.
25. What is environmentally sustainable economic development? How does it differ from traditional economic growth and economic development?
If you know of a website(s) where the answers are up, please post it because that would help a lot too. Or if you know of any website(s) that can HELP me answer these questions please post it. Unfortunately, my AP Environmental Science teacher has not given out books for the new school year and I don’t have any other way of answering the questions. Thank you for your time.
