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What is a key feature of ecocentric ethics? - humans should work with, not against, nature
Costs passed on to a society are called - externalities
What is the key tenet of fronteir ethics? - plants and animals exist for the sole use of humans.
John Muir - Ecocentric views for Hetch Hetchy
Conservation mechanisms and strategies include - tax breaks, purchased easments, Conservation
Reserve Program
Garrett Hardin - AUthor of the "Tragedy of the Commons"
Renewable Resources - Freshwater
"The limits to Growth - The study conducted during the 1970s that pioneered computer modeling for
natural resources and the impact of human demands, and also offered some rather dire predictions
concerning the carrying capacity of the earth
Aldo Leopold - Humans are a part of earth community that includes all living and non-living creatures.
Genuine Progress Indicator - Measures the countries economic growth and weather or not it has
improved the health and well being of the people.
Endangered Species Act - Presented and signed by President Nixon
Non-renewable resources - Crude oil, gemstones, coal, hard woods, ect.
, US Statistics - Makes up 5% of the worlds population but makes up 30% of the worlds resource
consumption.
Gifford Pinchot - 1st chief of the US Forest Service
Not- Plaugerism - Copying a Data Table from a website, providing a reference for the source.
Economic Discounting - when you have a supplementry source of something but still have to buy some
of the stuff.
Photosynthesis - Solar Energy =6co2 =6H2O
only 1-2% of Suns energy absorbed by plants.
N2 - For plants to use it , they require the assistance of nitrogen fixing bacteria in the soil and in their
roots.
Entropy - All systems moving towards maximum disorder.
CO2 - Released into atmosphere when natural gas, coal and oil are burned.
Generalist Species - A species that can adapt quickly and so can live in a plethora of areas such as the
cotton tail rabbit.
Disruption of the Nitrogen Cycle - Live stock ranching, sewage waste, application of nitrogen based
fertalizers to crops.
Carrying Capacity - The number of individuals, living in a given mannar that a site can support
indefinatly.
Pioneer Organism - Lichen after a fire.