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| 14691558183 | economics | goods and services | 0 | |
| 14691564946 | economic system | social institutions (socialism, communism) | 1 | |
| 14691568250 | free-market system | supply and demand | 2 | |
| 14691571309 | natural capital | resources provided by the earth's natural processes | 3 | |
| 14691576489 | human capital | people's physical and mental talents | 4 | |
| 14691582561 | manufactured capital | tools and materials | 5 | |
| 14691583563 | economic growth | -increased capacity to supply goods and services -requires increased production and consumption -requires more consumers | 6 | |
| 14691605603 | economic development | improvement of living standards by economic growth | 7 | |
| 14691610890 | environmentally sustainable economic development | using political and economic systems to discourage environmentally harmful and unsustainable forms of economic growth that degrade natural capital, and to encourage environmentally beneficial and sustainable forms of economic development that help sustain natural capital | 8 | |
| 14691622001 | use resources more sustainably | 1. full-cost pricing 2. subsidizing environmentally beneficial goods/services 3. taxing pollution & waste instead of wages on products | 9 | |
| 14691630567 | cap-and-trade | incentive based; to reduce SO2 * cap: companies pay penalties if they exceed the cap * trade: market for companies to buy and sell allowances that permit them to emit only a certain amount |  | 10 |
| 14691646328 | poverty | people who can't meet basic needs (1/5 of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day) | 11 | |
| 14691652819 | reducing poverty helps reduce: | * population growth * resource use * environmental degradation | 12 | |
| 14691659278 | microloans | * give hope to the poor * $5-$500 * mostly women | 13 |
