Exam 16: Technology and the Environment

The outlook environmentalists call the "logic of growth" follows from the fact that our way of life in the United States is based on

According to the limits-to-growth thesis, global supplies of oil and natural gas are already falling sharply and will continue to drop, a little faster or more slowly depending on

In all, the world's rain forests cover what percentage of Earth's total land surface?

According to which political point of view must government reforms include enacting and enforcing laws to limit further environmental damage, and for global organizations to work to protect the remaining rain forests?

How many motor vehicles are there in the United States, a nation with an adult population of about 200 million people?

The designers at a manufacturing company are coming out with a new product but they want to sell more units, so they deliberately engineer the products to have a limited useful life.This illustrates the concept of

According to conservative analyst Julian Simon, the fact that the planet supports six times as many people as it did when Malthus was alive is cause for

Knowledge that people apply to the task of living in a physical environment is

Precipitation, made toxic by air pollution, that destroys plant and animal life, is referred to as

George is an optimist and is fairly conservative.He agrees with the concept of the logic of growth approach, which