Miller 12th Edition Chapter 1 Outline Living In The Environment Principles, Connections, and Solutions.
Title: Miller 12th Edition Chapter 1 Outline Living In The Environment Principles, Connections, and Solutions.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 911 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Miller 12th Edition Chapter 1 Outline Living In The Environment Principles, Connections, and Solutions.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 911 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
CHAPTER 1 OUTLINE:
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, THEIR CAUSES, AND SUSTAINABILITY
1.1:LIVING MORE SUSTAINABLY
I. We face many environmental problems:
population growth
increasing resource use
destruction and degradation of wildlife habitats
premature extinction of plants and animals
poverty
pollution
II. We use natural resources to support our existence and lifestyles:
solar capital
natural capital
solar energy
III. An environmentally sustainable society is an ideal society that:
a. satisfies the needs of its people
b. without depleting or degrading
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environmentally harmful and should be discouraged.
Our success depends on learning how the earth sustains itself and adapts to ever-changing environmental conditions and integrating such scientific lessons from nature (environmental wisdom) into the ways we think and act.
IV. Skeptics about the use of technology call for us to use our economic and political systems:
to encourage environmentally beneficial forms of technology and economic growth
to discourage environmentally harmful forms of technology and economic growth