Chat with AI
Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman
Edition 18ISBN: 9781285969725Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman
Edition 18ISBN: 9781285969725 Exercise 2
What are the two key concepts for this section Identify five basic causes of the environmental problems that we face. What is exponential growth What is the rule of 70 What is the current size of the human population How many people are added each year How many people might be here by 2050 How do Americans, Indians, and the average people in the poorest countries compare in terms of average consumption per person What are two types of environmental damage resulting from growing affluence How can affluence help us to solve environmental problems What is poverty and what are three of its harmful environmental and health effects About how many of the world's people struggle to live on the equivalent of $1.25 a day How many try to live on $2.25 a day Explain the connection between poverty and population growth. List three major health problems suffered by many of the world's poor.
Explanation
Verified
Verified
The two key concepts for this section are the causes of environmental problems and the environmental worldviews. The major causes of environmental problems are population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, avoiding the full-cost pricing and increasing isolation from nature.
The environmental worldviews are determining whether we live unsustainably or more sustainably.
There are five basic causes of environmental problems that have been determined by environmental and social sciences. Those are:
• Population growth
• Wasteful and unsustainable resource use
• Poverty
• Failure to include the harmful environmental costs of goods and sources in market prices.
• Increasing isolation from nature
Exponential growth starts off slowly but occurs when a quantity (an example is the human population) increases at a fixed percentage unit of time, such as 1% or 2% per year. It is used where any factor can be calculated by using the Rule of 70.
The Rule of 70 is a way to estimate the number of years it takes for a certain variable to double. The Rule of 70 states that in order to estimate the number of years for a variable to double, take the number 70 and divide it by the growth rate of the variable.
The human population has been growing constantly. There are currently about 7.1 billion on earth. Each year, roughly 84 million are added. By the year 2050 there could be 9.6 billion in the human population.
In comparing Americans, Indians and the average person in the poorest countries to one another, those in the are believed to have created almost half of the global ecological footprint. The average American consumes about 30 times as much as the average Indian and 100 times as much as the average person in the poorest country.
According to some ecological footprint estimates, it would take 27 large tractor-trailer loads of resources per year, per American. In 2012, there were 315 million Americans.
Two types of environmental damage as a result of growing affluence is that first it allows consumers to obtain resources anywhere in the world without seeing the harmful effects to that area. Second, with each tractor-trailer load of resources, there is that much more pollution, both air and water and land degradation.
On the other hand, affluence could be beneficial in helping to solve the growing problem of the increasing ecological footprint. Better education for the human population is one benefit of affluence. This could lead to those that are more concerned with environmental problems, and interested in fixing them.
Affluence helps provide money to developing technologies so that research and development might happen to reduce pollution, environmental degradation and resource waste.
Poverty is where those who do not have affluence or the ability to change their living conditions live daily unable to take care of their basic needs. Those living in poverty are not able to provide adequate water, food, shelter, education and health care.
There are a number of harmful environmental and health issues stemming from poverty. Those that are trying to get enough food and water and finding the means to heating and cooking are degrading the forests, topsoil, grassland, fisheries and wildlife. Though each person living in poverty may not require much to live, the large quantity of people living in those conditions still degrade large areas of the environment.
The amount of people struggling to live on $1.25 a day is around 900 million people. This is considered extreme poverty. Those that attempt to live on $2.25 a day are roughly 2.6 billion, which is about one of every three people.
The connection between poverty and population growth is because many people living in poor countries rely on their children to take care of them in their old age, as well as other living factors. So the population tends to continue to grow because of this reliance. The children are expected to tend crops, get fuel, find food and water and tend livestock.
Three major health problems that those surviving in poverty live with are:
• Malnutrition
• Limited access to adequate sanitation facilities and clean drinking water
• Severe respiratory disease
One or more of these factors related to poverty is a major factor in premature deaths for approximately seven millions children under the age of five.
The environmental worldviews are determining whether we live unsustainably or more sustainably.
There are five basic causes of environmental problems that have been determined by environmental and social sciences. Those are:
• Population growth
• Wasteful and unsustainable resource use
• Poverty
• Failure to include the harmful environmental costs of goods and sources in market prices.
• Increasing isolation from nature
Exponential growth starts off slowly but occurs when a quantity (an example is the human population) increases at a fixed percentage unit of time, such as 1% or 2% per year. It is used where any factor can be calculated by using the Rule of 70.
The Rule of 70 is a way to estimate the number of years it takes for a certain variable to double. The Rule of 70 states that in order to estimate the number of years for a variable to double, take the number 70 and divide it by the growth rate of the variable.
The human population has been growing constantly. There are currently about 7.1 billion on earth. Each year, roughly 84 million are added. By the year 2050 there could be 9.6 billion in the human population.
In comparing Americans, Indians and the average person in the poorest countries to one another, those in the are believed to have created almost half of the global ecological footprint. The average American consumes about 30 times as much as the average Indian and 100 times as much as the average person in the poorest country.
According to some ecological footprint estimates, it would take 27 large tractor-trailer loads of resources per year, per American. In 2012, there were 315 million Americans.
Two types of environmental damage as a result of growing affluence is that first it allows consumers to obtain resources anywhere in the world without seeing the harmful effects to that area. Second, with each tractor-trailer load of resources, there is that much more pollution, both air and water and land degradation.
On the other hand, affluence could be beneficial in helping to solve the growing problem of the increasing ecological footprint. Better education for the human population is one benefit of affluence. This could lead to those that are more concerned with environmental problems, and interested in fixing them.
Affluence helps provide money to developing technologies so that research and development might happen to reduce pollution, environmental degradation and resource waste.
Poverty is where those who do not have affluence or the ability to change their living conditions live daily unable to take care of their basic needs. Those living in poverty are not able to provide adequate water, food, shelter, education and health care.
There are a number of harmful environmental and health issues stemming from poverty. Those that are trying to get enough food and water and finding the means to heating and cooking are degrading the forests, topsoil, grassland, fisheries and wildlife. Though each person living in poverty may not require much to live, the large quantity of people living in those conditions still degrade large areas of the environment.
The amount of people struggling to live on $1.25 a day is around 900 million people. This is considered extreme poverty. Those that attempt to live on $2.25 a day are roughly 2.6 billion, which is about one of every three people.
The connection between poverty and population growth is because many people living in poor countries rely on their children to take care of them in their old age, as well as other living factors. So the population tends to continue to grow because of this reliance. The children are expected to tend crops, get fuel, find food and water and tend livestock.
Three major health problems that those surviving in poverty live with are:
• Malnutrition
• Limited access to adequate sanitation facilities and clean drinking water
• Severe respiratory disease
One or more of these factors related to poverty is a major factor in premature deaths for approximately seven millions children under the age of five.
Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman
Why don’t you like this exercise?
Other Minimum 8 character and maximum 255 character
Character 255
