Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
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Section 1: What are Some Principles of Sustainability?
Concept 1-1A: Nature has been sustained for billions of years by relying on solar energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling. Concept 1-1B: Our lives and economies depend on energy fro the sun and on natural resources and ecosystem services (natural capital) provided by the earth. Concept 1-1C: We could shift toward living more sustainably by applying full-cost pricing, searching for win-win solutions, and committing to preserving the earth's life-support system for future generations. Section 2: How are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
Concept 1-2: As our ecological footprints grow, we are depleting and degrading more of the earth's natural capital. |
Section 3: Why Do We Have Environmental Problems?
Concept 1-3A: Major causes of environmental problems are population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, avoidance of full-cost pricing, and increasing isolation from nature. Concept 1-3B: Our environmental worldview play a key role in determining whether we live unsustainably or more sustainably. Section 4: What is an Environmentally Sustainable Society?
Concept 1-4: Living sustainably means living off the earth's natural income without depleting or degrading the natural capital that supplies it. |
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