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aristotelian scholasticism
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the more ive read the more rite i am i think therefore I am\
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non-renewable resources
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once depleted their no longer available\
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natural resources
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subsistence and energy sources needed to survive water trees raw materials and land\
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ecological footprint
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enviro impact from individual or populations use and consumption of land and natural resources regurarly used and needed for survival\
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overshoot
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using more resources that can be sustained (using 30% more than can be sustained today)\
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John Muir
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helped found sierra club and preservation ethic\
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preservation ethic
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protect environment and natural resources\
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Gifford Pinchot
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helped found US forest service and conservation ethic\
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conservation ehtic
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were responsible to manage natural resources in sustainable way\
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Aldo Lepold
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1st to articulate eco centric ethic wrote the land ethic\
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Teddy Rosevelt
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worked with Muir said need to protect sierra nevadas \
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ecofeminisim
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men being in power it main cause of social and enviromental problems\
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sustanibility
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requires that humans use natural resources only @ rate that they can be replaced living within earth means of reproducing the resources we use that support life. It is circular. \
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natural capital
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earths accumulated wealth of resources\
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principals of sustanibility#1
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do not produce waist of pollutants faster than they can be cleane violatd by depletion of natural resources\
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enviromental degredation
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loss of bio-diversity (violating principals of sustanibility #1 \
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best first principle
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use best rescources first (Violating principals of stanibility #1)\
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principals of sustanibility#2
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humans part of system on earth society and enviroment are interconected violated w/o policys to protect enviromet\
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principals of sustanibility#3
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ethics morals equality and fairness toward enviroment and life violated by unequal opportunity for human dev\
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principals of sustanibility#4
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social incentives (rewards) for those who act in sustainable way. violated by not being enviromentally and ethically stable\
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sierra club
Definition
biggest non government advocate of the enviroment\
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animal rites
Definition
biggest cultural shift and moral shift\
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moral extension
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extended morals to ecocentric views w/ invention of animal rites\
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rachel carson
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book 'silent spring helped ger pesticide policys and baned DDT and other volitle chemicles. \
david brower founded many enviromental organazations sierra club, john muir instute and friends of earth\
sustainable development finding natural ways to safeguard natural systems while raising standard of living for poor people\
intergenerational ethics musth think of future in todays use of ethics\
carying capicity how manyhumans earth can hold at our basic needs (kinda like sustanibility)\
crude birthrate persons borne per one thousand peope per year (opportunities for women lower this rate\
crude death rate persons that die per one thousand people per year (children dind less often maes this lower)\
Death rate/birth rate both going down but death rate goes down faster so pop grows\
exponential population growth pop mutiplying grows very rapidly doubles every so often\
geo metric pop growth slowly growing population\
enriromental services natural process that regulate condition to make planet sustanable like water cycle forests adn wind\
Gros domestic product DGP is value of goods and services provided in country\
less devolped naion GDP less than 10000$ \
more devolped nations GDP more than 10 000$\
Garet harden wrote tragity of the commones policy to protest commingcommenly used resources from depletion\
demographic transition modle of economic and cultural change proposed in 1950s by frank notestein to explain declining death reates and birth rates that have occured in industrilized \
population density number of individuals within a population per unit area\
enviromental resistance collective force of limiting factors which together stabilize a populaiton size and its carying capicity\
age distribuition relative number of organisims of each age within a population age. population growth of decline often represented as ratio of age\
agriculture practice of cultivation soil to producing crops and raise live stock for humans use and consumption\
george perkins marsh book man and nature\
john wesley powell exploration of colorado river and its canyons did survey to see if good for homestead.... no\
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david brower
Definition
founded many enviromental organazations sierra club, john muir instute and friends of earth\
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sustainable development
Definition
finding natural ways to safeguard natural systems while raising standard of living for poor people\
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intergenerational ethics
Definition
musth think of future in todays use of ethics\
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carying capicity
Definition
how manyhumans earth can hold at our basic needs (kinda like sustanibility)\
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crude birthrate
Definition
persons borne per one thousand peope per year (opportunities for women lower this rate\
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crude death rate
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persons that die per one thousand people per year (children dind less often maes this lower)\
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Death rate/birth rate
Definition
both going down but death rate goes down faster so pop grows\ things affecting nutrition, diet drinking hto hygiene infectious dieseas
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exponential population growth
Definition
pop mutiplying grows very rapidly doubles every so often\
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geo metric pop growth
Definition
slowly growing population\
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enriromental services
Definition
natural process that regulate condition to make planet sustanable like water cycle forests adn wind\
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Gros domestic product
Definition
DGP is value of goods and services provided in country\
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less devolped naion
Definition
GDP less than 10000$
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more devolped nations
Definition
GDP more than 10 000$\
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Garet harden
Definition
wrote tragity of the commones policy to protest commingcommenly used resources from depletion\ and life boat ethics
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demographic transition
Definition
modle of economic and cultural change proposed in 1950s by frank notestein to explain declining death reates and birth rates that have occured in industrilized
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population density
Definition
number of individuals within a population per unit area\
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enviromental resistance
Definition
collective force of limiting factors which together stabilize a populaiton size and its carying capicity\
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age distribuition
Definition
relative number of organisims of each age within a population age. population growth of decline often represented as ratio of age\
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agriculture
Definition
practice of cultivation soil to producing crops and raise live stock for humans use and consumption\
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george perkins marsh
Definition
book man and nature\
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john wesley powell
Definition
exploration of colorado river and its canyons did survey to see if good for homestead.... no\
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externality
Definition
spillover of an economic transaction is an impact on a party that is not directly involved in the transaction. In such a case, prices do not reflect the full costs or benefits in production or consumption of a product or service. raido in story of stuff
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Human Development Index (HDI)
Definition
is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped.
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less developed nations
Definition
gdp less than 1000$ poor health and education
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Lifeboat ethics
Definition
is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by Garrett Hardin The lifeboat is in an ocean surrounded by a hundred swimmers. The "ethics" of the situation stem from the dilemma of whether (and under what circumstances) swimmers should be taken aboard the lifeboat.
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more developed nations
Definition
gdp greater than 10000 better opportuiities
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transcendendentalists
Definition
protest against the general state of culture and society, transcendentalists' core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions and literature started by emmerson
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wast assimilation
Definition
principal of sustanibility #1 socity does nor produce waste faster than nature can assimilate (absorb) it
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Wilderness
Definition
or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity
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lynn white
Definition
White's article "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" was based on the premise that "all forms of life modify their context", that is: we all create change in our environment. He believed man's relationship with the natural environment was always a dynamic and interactive one
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age classes
Definition
reproductive years....before during and after
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baby boomers
Definition
1946–1955 after ww2 resulated in oongoing population boom
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Histograms
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Histograms are used to plot density of data
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doubling time
Definition
the period of time required for a quantity (population) to double in size or value
occures in exponential growth
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hunting and gathering
Definition
A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either. NO AGRICULTURE exists
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Population momentum
Definition
refers to population growth at the national level which would occur even if levels of childbearing immediately declined to replacement level.[1] For countries with above-replacement fertility (greater than 2.1 children per woman), population momentum represents natural increase to the population. For below-replacement countries, momentum corresponds to a population decline.
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Replacement level fertility
Definition
is the level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next. In developed countries, replacement level fertility can be taken as requiring an average of 2.1 children per woman. In countries with high infant and child mortality rates, however, the average number of births may need to be much higher.
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population histogram
Definition
a graph showing the values of one or more variables plotted against time or against frequency of occurrence. A graph of a patient's temperature, pulse, and respiration is an example of a histogra
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maximum intrinscic growth rate
Definition
maximum ustainable growth rate
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Weak sustainability:
Definition
Manufactured capital of equal value can take the place of natural capital
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total fertility rate
Definition
average number of children born per female member of a population during her lifetime
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population
Definition
group of individuals or species that live in same area
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logistic eqation
Definition
growth rises sharply but falls off as as limiting factors become stronger (limiting factors environmental resistance)
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enviromental resistance
Definition
stabilizes the pop size to it's caring capicity
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limiting facor
Definition
availability of food water mates shelter temp disease predators. Plants are limited by sunlight and moisture and soil chemistry disease and plant eating animals
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density dependent factors
Definition
high pop density can help find mates, but can increase competition and disease....pop rises more enviromental resistance there is
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density independent factors
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not influenced by pop density, temp floods fires and other natural disasters can wipe out large pops without regard to density.
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age structure
Definition
Categorization of the population of communities or countries by age groups, allowing demographers to make projections of the growth or decline of the particular population.
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system
Definition
network of relationships among components that interact with and influence one anouther through exchange of matter or information
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renewable resources
Definition
always available, sun wind timber, water, soil renew slowly over time
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resource depletion
Definition
non renewable resources minerals curide oil are in finite supply foarmed much much slower
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pollution
Definition
release of matter or energy into the environment that causes negative unwanted impats on health of life
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theory
Definition
widely accepted explanation. because of many experiments proving something
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eco centric ethics
Definition
living and non living elements all portins of environmental life
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bio centric
Definition
ethics for all living things
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anthropocentric ethics
Definition
is a human centered view of lifes interactin with enviroment
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