Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assignments (3)
300 30
Discussions (7) 210 21
Leadership week (2)
140 14
Written critiques (3)
150 15
Final project (1)
150 15
Quizzes (5) 50 05
TOTAL 1000 100%
Key Questions
• What keeps us alive? What is an environmentally sustainable society?
• What are the earth’s main type of resources? How can they be
depleted or degraded?
• What are the principal types of pollution, and what can we do about
pollution?
More Questions
• What are the basic causes of today’s environmental problems,
and how are these causes connected?
• Exponential growth –
a quantity increases at a fixed
percentage per unit of time.
– Underlying causes
• Three other likely causes:
– Global trade policies that undermine environmental
protection.
– Influence of money and politics.
– Failure to provide inspiring and positive visions of a more
sustainable and durable economic future.
• Resource Consumption and Environmental Problems
– Prosperous over-consume
Heat
Human Capital Human
Economic Depletion of
and nonrenewable resources
Cultural
Systems Degradation of
Natural Capital renewable resources