Chapter 1.2: How are our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?

What is environmental worldview?

your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your rowl in the world should be

What is planetary management worldwide?

holds that we are separate from and in charge of nature

What is stewardship worldview?

holds that we can and should manage the earth for our own benefit, but that we have and ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers, or stewards, of the earth

What is poverty?

is a condition in which people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for adequate food, water, shelter, health care, and education

What is environmental degradation?

living unsustainably by wasting, depleting, and degrading the earth's natural capital at an accelerating rate

What is environmentally sustainable society?

one that meets the current and future issue fro what is known as the environmental justice movement

What are the two ways we've tried to deal with pollution?

pollution cleanup and pollution prevention

What is a Point source?

single, identifiable source

What is a ecological footprint?

the amount of land and water needed to supply a person or an area with renewable resources such as food and water, and that are needed to absorb and recycle the waste and pollution produced by such resources use

What is a per capita ecological footprint?

the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area

What is pollution clean up?

the cleaning up or diluting of pollutants after we have produced them

What is pollution prevention?

the efforts focused on greatly reducing or eliminating the production of pollunts

What is environmental ethics?

the study of our various beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment

What is affluence?

wealth

What is malnutrition?

a lack of protien and other nutrients needed for good health

What is a Nonpoint source?

are dispersed and often difficult to identify

If the total ecological footprint of a city, a country, or the world is larger than its __________ ________ to replenish its renewable resources and absorb the resulting waste and pollution, it is said to have an __________ _______

biological capacity, ecological deficit

What is pollution?

contamination of the environment by a chemical or other agent such as noise or heat to a level that is harmful to health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms

What is environmental wisdom worldwide?

holds that we are part of, and dependent on, nature and that the earth's life-support system exists for all species, not just for us