Chapter 24 Quiz Answers – Flashcards
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Recycle Mania
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collegiate recycling contest
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Sustainable accounting practices include these costs
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external
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In the IPAT model of human impact on environment, P is
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population
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Wealthy people in developed countries often have this
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affluenza
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Sustainable universities build green LEED-certified buildings that have this
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high energy efficiency
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The lesson of Easter Island was that _____
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conservation of resources is necessary for sustainable societies
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An important way to alter the perception that protecting the environment is incompatible with economic progress is through _____
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education
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Student sustainability movements are more successful when administration is shown how a policy of sustainable practices ___
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saves money
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Our global society has a greater potential to address concerns of sustainability today compared to previous societies because ________.
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we have many thousands of scientists who study Earth's processes and resources closely
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We could, in theory, make all of our industrial processes sustainable if we could ________
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transform linear processes into circular ones
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A Kill-A-Watt meter is useful for ___
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auditing electrical usage plug-by-plug and room-by-room
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Responsible stewardship in the coming decades will require global energy policies that promote ________.
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both sustainability and technological efficiency
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Working to achieve sustainability on college and university campuses ________.
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will have long-term benefits to society when students graduate
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To encourage corporations to adopt green technologies in a capitalist economy, citizens can ________.
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choose products from companies that adopt sustainable practices
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Many proponents of sustainability believe that encouraging local selfsufficiency is important for building sustainable societies because ________
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when people are tied more closely to the area they live in, they will value the area more and seek to sustain its environment and its human communities
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Greeks Going Green at the University of Washington installed several hundred devices to conserve ________ on campus.
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water
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Because of human ________, there is ample reason to hope that we may achieve sustainability before doing too much damage to our planet and to our own future prospects.
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ingenuity
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According to Figure A, average salary was ________ in 1995 (adjusted to 1995 dollars) than in 1965, and people were ________ happier
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twice as high, and no
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According to figure B, Americans in the highest income bracket shown are ________ likely to classify themselves as very happy as/than those in the lowest income bracket.
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approximately twice as
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Which of the following can be inferred from the two figures shown?
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Although Americans have higher incomes (adjusted for inflation) than they did 50 years ago, American society as a whole is no happier than it was back then. However, Americans in high income brackets are happier than those in low income brackets.
