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Chapter 1 Key Terms: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
Use your textbook to define all of the following BOLD FACE key terms. You should be familiar
with the italicized words but you don’t have to write them out. (Terms are listed in the same font
style as they appear in the text.)
exponential growth (p. 5)
biodiversity (p. 5)
environment (p. 6)
ecology (p. 6)
environmental science (p. 6)
natural world (p. 6)
cultural world (p. 6)
environmentalism (p. 6)
capital (p. 6)
solar capital (p. 6)
solar energy (p. 6)
wind power (p. 6)
hydropower (p. 6)
biomass (p. 6)
natural resources (p. 6)
natural capital (p. 6)
resources (p. 6)
ecological services (p. 6)
biological income (p. 6)
environmentally sustainable society (p. 6)
living sustainably (p. 6)
economic growth (p. 7)
gross domestic product (GDP) (p. 7)
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per capita GDP (p. 7)
economic development (p. 7)
developed countries (p. 8)
developing countries (p. 8)
globalization (p. 8)
perpetual resource (p. 9)
renewable resource (p. 9)
sustainable yield (p. 9)
environmental degradation (p. 9)
common-property (p. 10)
free access resources (p. 10)
tragedy of the commons (p. 10)
per capita ecological footprint (p. 10)
nonrenewable resources (p. 11)
energy resources (p. 11)
metallic mineral resources (p. 11)
nonmetallic mineral resources (p. 11)
recycling (p. 11)
reuse (p. 11)
pollution (p. 11)
point sources (p. 12)
nonpoint sources (p. 12)
pollution prevention (p. 12)
input pollution control (p. 12)
pollution cleanup (p. 12)
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output pollution control (p. 12)
malnutrition (p. 13)
affluenza (p. 14)
shop-till-you-drop virus (p. 14)
law of progressive simplification (p. 14)
technological optimists (p. 16)
environmental pessimists (p. 16)
environmental worldview (p. 16)
environmental ethics (p. 16)
planetary management worldview (p. 16)
stewardship worldview (p. 16)
environmental wisdom worldview (p. 16)
environmentally sustainable economic development (p. 17)
environmental (sustainability) revolution (p. 17)
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