A) GDP is supposed to increase slightly by the year 2200,but the GPI is expected to decrease precipitously as people struggle emotionally and socioeconomically from the effects of climate change.
B) Climate change is expected to boost GDP by greater than 5% annually by the year 2200 as economies flourish because of extra spending on flooding,hurricanes,droughts,and other impacts of climate change.
C) GDP is expected to increase because all projections indicate that human populations will crash by the year 2200,so per capita GDP will increase.
D) Climate change is expected to decrease GDP by greater than 5% annually by the year 2200 as economies struggle because of the economic effects of flooding,hurricanes,droughts,and other impacts of climate change.
E) GDP is expected to increase by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius by the year 2200.
G) D) and E)
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A) greenwashing
B) discounting
C) the externalizing of costs
D) ecolabeling
E) environmental justice
G) A) and B)
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Nonmarket values of ecosystem services i...View Answer
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A) increase
B) decrease
C) remain unchanged
D) move down the demand line
E) move down the supply line
G) A) and B)
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A) discourage ecolabeling
B) nationalize all Earth's natural resources
C) promote social and environmental justice
D) deregulate corporations
E) lower corporate taxes
G) A) and C)
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A) Costa Rica has lost virtually all of its forests to agriculture since 1940.
B) Costa Rica's forests have changed dramatically in composition since 1940 because the forests have been invaded by European buckthorn and other invasive species.
C) Costa Rica has been regaining lost forest land since 1940,when strict forest regulations were passed and the country began serious reforestation efforts.
D) Costa Rica rapidly lost forests from 1940 until the 1980s,but its forests have more than doubled in size since then.
E) Costa Rica's forests increased in size slightly from 1940 until 1985,after which Costa Rica began rapidly losing forests because multinational coffee companies began cutting down rainforest to create coffee plantations.
G) A) and C)
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A) meets its needs by overfishing lakes and rivers
B) purchases goods and services from others
C) purchases resources for immediate use
D) meets its needs without working for wages and purchasing necessities
E) meets is needs while causing ecosystem destruction
G) C) and D)
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A) Industrial output drops off in both scenarios.
B) Human populations will inevitably crash in both projections.
C) Resources continue to be depleted in both scenarios.
D) Food resources crash in both scenarios.
E) Pollution will be a growing problem in both projections.
G) D) and E)
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A) describes how American Navajos suffered from the adverse effects of uranium mining
B) describes how most toxic landfills are located in poorer communities
C) decries pesticide misuse
D) encourages actions that preserve biotic communities
E) describes the history of the EPA
G) A) and E)
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A) Long -term effects and planning are important.
B) Resources are finite and should be conserved for the greater good of society.
C) External costs and benefits are valuable.
D) Economic growth is a means toward greater human well -being.
E) All citizens deserve just and equal economic and sociopolitical treatment.
G) B) and E)
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A) Ecofeminism
B) Preservationism
C) Transcendentalism
D) Environmental justice movement
E) Pantheism
G) A) and D)
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Cornucopians such as Julian Simon feel t...View Answer
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A) GDP
B) GAP
C) GPI
D) GNP
E) ATP
G) A) and B)
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A) ecocentrist
B) market economist
C) ethnocentrist
D) anthropocentrist
E) biocentrist
G) All of the above
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A) Ecological justice
B) Environmental justice
C) Land ethics
D) Conservation
E) Socialism
G) A) and B)
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A) price goods that are in low demand
B) price goods that are in low supply
C) dismiss viewpoints that run counter to the main tenets of neoclassical economics
D) decrease the importance and value of future people and goods
E) encourage sustainable practices by making it more economically feasible to update sewage treatment plants and municipal landfills
G) A) and B)
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A) Environmentally harmful actions such as logging and overfishing are selfish and should be punished.
B) Killing people is wrong.
C) Lying is wrong because it can affect another person negatively.
D) People always have a right to take whatever measures they see fit to defend their life and property.
E) Slavery is not ethically wrong in societies where slaves are otherwise at risk of starvation and misery.
G) A) and D)
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A) Woodpeckers in the Black Hills eat mountain pine beetles that have been killing millions of acres of pine forests in the western U.S.,costing millions of dollars in lost timber sales and creating an extreme fire hazard.
B) A wetland filters runoff and detoxifies water before it percolates into drinking water aquifers.
C) An estuary is often a stopover location for millions of migrating shorebirds that need to stop and fuel up on the invertebrates living in the mudflats.
D) Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota provides jobs for loggers.
E) My professor's prairie provides flowers for her colony of honeybees to harvest pollen.
G) A) and E)
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A) market value of goods
B) cost -benefit analysis
C) GDP
D) cost of production
E) aesthetic and cultural value
G) A) and C)
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