Exam 14: Global Responsibility for the Preservation of the Environment

The science of ____________________ has developed hybrid crops and plants and ____________________ that are genetically modified to make them more resistant to pests or to increase their nutritional content.

The volatility of oil prices may be even more threatening than high oil prices due to the instability and inability to plan future energy investments.

Explain how moral and religious traditions conflict with the realist and mercantilist views of interacting with the environment with or without government regulation.

The claiming of common properties by states or private interests for their own use is known as the __________ .

The amount of human and other life forms that the Earth can support is referred to as _________.

Oil is being discovered at a much faster pace than it is being consumed.

A renewable source of energy is _________ .

_____________________ is research to discover new types of plant and human life for sale and use as substitutes for those produced naturally, and ______________________ are agricultural products with improved characteristics created artificially by combining genes from species that would not naturally interbreed.

____________________ is precipitation that has been made acidic through contact with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and is caused by burning coal.

The politics of ____________________ is the view that the unavailability of resources required to sustain life, such as food, energy, or water, can undermine security in degrees similar to military aggression.

List three sources of non-renewable energy.

The concept of environmental security broadens the traditional definition of security, which focused primarily on national security.

The 1987 Montreal Protocol limits the production of CFCs in an attempt to stop depletion of the ozone layer.

Environmentalists view using trade to promote environmental standards as one way to combat the negative impact that trade can have on the environment.

Which of the following does NOT contribute to environmental degradation?

Biodiversity includes genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity.

What is biodiversity?

Deforestation is most occurring in which countries?

One reason the price of food has risen worldwide is

"Threats to global life systems such as global warming, ozone depletion, and the loss of tropical forests and marine habitats are just as important to the future of humankind as the threat of nuclear catastrophe." Is global environmental degradation a security issue with consequences as far-reaching as those entailed by the traditional concept of national security? Why, or why not?