Exam 5: Business and Its External Exchanges: Ecology and Consumers

refers to the consumption of finite or scarce resources.

We cannot rely on market mechanisms to ensure adequate conservation for future generations, however. The needs of future generations are so heavily discounted by markets that they hardly affect prices at all.

Few views of deep ecology are unusual and/or controversial.

The oil wells are not expected to disrupt the sensitive economic system in the Valley's Basin

BHP had a tailings containment plan study prepared to deal with the OK Tedi Copper Mine river pollution. Of the following approaches, which one was the least total likely cost.

The gas field known as the Pinedale Anticline is expected to stop the energy boom.

The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic expected to not recover until sometime between the years 2060 to 2075.

The release of CFCs into the atmosphere may lead to several hundred thousand new cases of skin cancer each year and destroy many valuable food crops. Also, ocean plankton-on which the entire ocean's food chain depends-may be severely damaged. This is referred to as:

The saving or rationing of natural resources for later use is referred to as:

The undesirable and unintended contamination of the environment by the manufacture or use of commodities is commonly referred to as:

The Green Valley is estimated to have enough natural gas to support the nation for an entire year.

Each human generates______ of garbage each day.

Acid rain is caused by:

Environmental damage inevitably threatens the welfare of human beings as well as plants and animals. Threats to the environment come from two sources: pollution and resource depletion.

Because our environment is so complex and its parts are so interwoven, many theorists believe that our duty to protect the environment extends beyond the welfare of humans to other nonhuman parts of the system. This idea is called: