Exam 17: Environmental Economics Politics and Worldviews

Some research has suggested that many toxic waste sites in white communities have been cleaned up faster and more completely than similar sites in African American and Latino communities have.

What lifestyle choice does Gandhi's principle of enoughness address and how does it help the environment?

In the United States,rapid and destabilizing change is curbed by a system of ____.​

The ____________________ worldview assumes that humans are dominant over all other species and should therefore make environmental decisions based on that dominance.

History shows that significant change usually comes from the bottom up when individuals join together to bring about change.

​The federal government manages roughly 35% of the country's land,which is jointly owned by ____.

An ethical guideline to sustainable living is to ____ the way that nature sustains itself.​

Ecological economists tend to view human economic systems as subsystems of the biosphere.

The ____ was deliberately designed to measure outputs,without taking into account their beneficial or harmful environmental impacts.​

Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the use of ____________________ to assist millions of people in lifting themselves out of poverty.

Less than 10% of the U.S.public considers the environment to be one of the nation's most pressing problems.

Some affluent people in more-developed countries are adopting a lifestyle of ____________________,which involves learning to live with fewer possessions.

​The ecological economist believes that conventional economic growth will eventually ____.

China's ____,has grown to roughly 300 million,which is a number almost equal to the U.S.population.​

Stewardship is based on an idea that nature exists for all species alike and our success depends on how well we manage the earth and nature.

One approach to working toward more environmentally beneficial economies is to sell certain products that replace the need for services.

Many analysts think that the tax systems in most countries are somewhat backward because they discourage jobs,income,and profit-driven innovation.

To which international plan to curb poverty has the United States failed to contribute its stated pledge?​

​Some experts cite the failure to include the harmful environmental costs in the ____ of the goods and services as one of the major causes of the environmental problems we face.

Some believe that fighting forces and weaponry will become less useful toward national security because of environmental degradation.