Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Environmental Science?

Answer 1

The systematic study of our environment and our place in it

Question 2

Current Population

Answer 2

7 billion people

Question 3

Projection population by 2050

Answer 3

8-10 Billion

Question 4

Challenges facing survival of earth?

Answer 4

Climate Change, clean water, clean air, population

Question 5

Population in countries is?

Answer 5

stabilizing or decreasing

Question 6

signs of progress

Answer 6

pollution is going down, renewable energy is increasing

Question 7

Sustainability

Answer 7

search for long term ecological stability and human progress

Question 8

Sustainable development

Answer 8

meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 9

science

Answer 9

a process for producing knowledge based on the natural world

Question 10

Stage 1 of Env Science

Answer 10

Utilitarian= forest should be saved to provide homes and jobs in the future

Question 11

Stage 2 of Env Science

Answer 11

Ethical= Muir thought nature deserved to exist for itself and not for humans

Question 12

Stage 3 of Env Science

Answer 12

Rising Pollution

Question 13

Stage 4 of Env Science

Answer 13

Global Environmentalism= making links between environmental quality and social progress

Question 14

Sustainable Development Today

Answer 14

economic improvement for the worlds poorest countries is possible without devastating the environment