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| 14749658359 | Environmentally Sustainable Society | Meets current needs in a just and equitable manner without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs | 0 | |
| 14749667750 | Natural Income | Renewable resources | 1 | |
| 14749669704 | The Anthropocene | New era where humans have become major agents of change in the functioning of Earth's life | 2 | |
| 14749687640 | What do all economic systems depend on? | Natural Capital | 3 | |
| 14749690291 | Economics | Goods and services | 4 | |
| 14749692060 | Economic Systems | Social institution; A method that a group of people use to choose which goods and services to produce, how you produce, and how to distribute them to people | 5 | |
| 14749696135 | Free-market System | Supply and demand | 6 | |
| 14749699962 | Natural Capital | Resources provided by the earth's natura; processess | 7 | |
| 14749702907 | Manufactured Capital | Tools and materials | 8 | |
| 14749705998 | Economic Growth | Increased capacity to supply goods and services Requires increased production and consumption Requires more consumers | 9 | |
| 14749713187 | Economic Development | Improvement of living standards | 10 | |
| 14749729915 | Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development | Using political and economic systems to discourage environmentally harmful and unsustainable forms of economic growth | 11 | |
| 14749742473 | What resources can you use for more sustainability? | Full cost pricing Subsidizing environmentally beneficial goods Taxing pollution and waste | 12 | |
| 14749953140 | Full-cost Pricing | Includes estimated costs of harmful environmental and health effects of production | 13 | |
| 14749976689 | Cap and Trade | Used to produce Sulfur Dioxide | 14 | |
| 14749987901 | Cap on greenhouse gas emissions | A limit backed by science. Company's pay penalties if they exceed the cap, which gets stricter over time | 15 | |
| 14750094258 | Trade | A market for companies to buy and sell allowances that permit them to produce only a certain amount. It gives companies a strong incentive to save money | 16 | |
| 14750159006 | Reducing Poverty helps reduce: | Population growth resource use environmental degradation | 17 | |
| 14750166794 | Microloans | Gives hope to the poor | 18 | |
| 14750168839 | Environmental Science | Connects info and ideas from Natural Resources, Social Sciences, and Humanities | 19 | |
| 14750227376 | Natural Resources | Ecology, biology, geology, chemistry | 20 | |
| 14750230656 | Social Sciences | Geography, politics, economics | 21 | |
| 14750230657 | Humanities | Ethics and philosophy | 22 | |
| 14750243921 | Renewable Resources | Several days to several hundreds to renew | 23 | |
| 14750249682 | Nonrenewable Resources | Finite stock on earth | 24 | |
| 14750259562 | Three major cultural events that increases human ecological footprint: | Agricultural Rev. Industrial-medical Rev. Informational-globalization Rev. | 25 | |
| 14750313007 | Causes of Environmental Problems: | Population growth Wasteful resource use Poverty | 26 | |
| 14750397817 | Exponential Growth | Population increases | 27 | |
| 14750412353 | Harmful Environmental Impact: | Consumption Pollution Wasting resources | 28 | |
| 14750421011 | Beneficial Environmental Impact: | Funds for developing technologies to reduce pollution, environmental degradation and resource waste | 29 | |
| 14750434048 | Affluence | wealth; allows to consume big amounts of resources beyond their basic needs | 30 | |
| 14750443692 | Affluenza | Unsustainable addiction to over-consumption and materialism | 31 | |
| 14750450693 | Living Sustainability | Living off of Earth's natural income without degrading the natural capital that supplies it | 32 | |
| 14750503533 | Policy Making Involves: | Enacting laws Enforcing laws | 33 | |
| 14750511577 | Environmental Leaders can make a big difference: | lead by example run for local office protect ecosystems | 34 | |
| 14750516182 | Environmental Law | Defines what's acceptable environmental behavior | 35 | |
| 14750521357 | Injunction | Court hearing | 36 | |
| 14750523371 | Class Action Suit | Civil suit filed by group | 37 | |
| 14750528239 | Negligence | Damage caused by acting unreasonably | 38 | |
| 14750530753 | Statues of Limitation | Limit length of time a plaintiff can sue | 39 | |
| 14750560311 | SLAPP | Lawsuit intended to censor people with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their opposition | 40 | |
| 14750575066 | Grassgroups | Growing their efforts with environmental organizations | 41 | |
| 14752068580 | Natural Services | Processes provided by healthy ecosystems | 42 | |
| 14752071659 | Solar Capital | Energy that warms the planet and produces wind and flowing water | 43 | |
| 14752075325 | Point Source Pollution | A single source of air, water, or light pollution | 44 | |
| 14752077694 | GDP | Measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced | 45 | |
| 14752077695 | Per Capita GDP | GDP of a country divided by its total population at midyear. It gives the average slice of the economic pie per product. | 46 | |
| 14752082364 | Per Capita GDP PPP | Measure of the amount of goods and services that a country's average citizen could buy in the U.S. | 47 | |
| 14752084056 | Sustainability Yeild | Highest rate at which a potentially renewable resource can be used without reducing its available supply | 48 | |
| 14752089308 | Cost Benefit Analysis | Process businesses use to analyze decisions | 49 | |
| 14752092432 | Discount Rate | An estimate of a resource's future economic value compared to its present value; having something today will may be worth more than it will be in the futureH | 50 | |
| 14752093805 | Human Capital | People's physical and mental talents that provide labor, innovation, culture, and organization | 51 |
