Ch. 1

Unsustainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism exhibited in lifestyles of many affluent consumers in the U.S., developed countries, and rising middle class of developing countries.

Began 10-12 TYA, allowed people to settle in villages and raise crops and domesticated animals

Variety of life forms and the places where they live

Not owned by individuals, available free of charge, like clean air, open ocean and fish, migratory bords, gases

Industrialized, high GDP, include U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and most European countried

Most in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

All living and nonliving things that affect any living organism

When we exceed a resources natural replacement rate.

Concerned about what is right concerning the environment.

Make the environmental problem seem unfixable.

Integrates information and ideas from natural sciences and the social sciences.

We are dependent on nature and it exists for all species, not just us. Also wants sustainable economic growth

set of assumptions and values about how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.

Social movement for protecting the earth’s life support systems for us and other species.

Encourage environmentally beneficial and sustainable forms of economic development and discourage environmentally harmful and unsustainable forms of economic growth.

One that meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without

Increase at fixed percentage.

Views continent as having vast resources and with a wilderness to be conquered and managed for human use.

Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all organisations within a country.

Began 275 YA, shift from animal-powered agriculture to urban society using fossil fuels.

Began 50 YA, based on new technologies for rapid access to info

reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants

Toynbee taught that societies become better based on culture, capacity for compassion, sense of community, and strength of democracy.

Resources and services that keep organism alive and support economies.