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ENV330
1. Make a numbered list of five ways in which you unnecessarily waste energy
during a typical day and explain how these actions violate any of the scientific
principles of sustainability.
2. Use the law of conservation of matter (mass) and the two laws of
thermodynamics (energy) to explain why even recycling and reuse cannot lead
to sustainability, especially on a planet with an exponentially growing
population using ever-increasing amounts of energy and materials and
producing ever-increasing amounts of waste.
3. Why do we need to make a new energy transition over the next few decades?
4. You are in charge of the world. Make a numbered list of the three most
important components of your strategy for dealing with each of the following:
(a) solid waste, and
(b) hazardous waste.
5. Man-made chemicals are considered innocent until proven guilty – consider
PCB’s, for example. What might be a better policy regarding the introduction of
new chemicals into the environment, considering what we’ve learned the hard
way since the beginning of the industrial revolution?
6. What are three consumption patterns or other aspects of your lifestyle that
directly add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
7. Why are most of the largest urban areas located near water?
8. What effect might climate change due to human caused global warming have
on these cities?
9. What are (a) the major causes, (b) consequences and (c) the solutions for
ocean acidification? (d) How will ocean acidification affect your children’s and
grandchildren’s lives?
10.Describe the role and effectiveness of the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC).
11.Compare Curitiba, Brazil and Portland, Oregon (Core Case Study, Chapter 22)
as ecocities. Use the Three Scientific Principles of Sustainability in your
comparisons.
12.Explain how the US local property tax structure leads to poor land use planning
and urban sprawl.
13.Apply the Three Scientific Principles of Sustainability to John Todd’s “Living
Machine” (SCIENCE FOCUS 20.3) approach to waste water treatment and
explain how the system works.
14.What is “environmental justice?
15.Do you believe that we have an ethical responsibility to leave the earth’s
natural systems in as good a condition as they are now or better? Explain.
16.Explain how growing corn in the Midwest of the U.S. to produce ethanol and
protein-rich meat can decrease the production of protein-rich seafood in the
Gulf of Mexico (Core Case Study, Chapter.).
17.Consider Donella Meadows’ contrast between neoclassical economics and
ecological economics (pp. 648-650; Using Lessons from Nature to Make the
Transition).
18.What viewpoints are summarized in Chapter 25?
19.Do you agree or disagree with Theologian Thomas Berry views that the
industrial–consumer society built on the human-centered, planetary
management environmental worldview the “supreme pathology of all history.”
He says, “We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood
ENV330
1. Make a numbered list of five ways in which you unnecessarily waste energy
during a typical day and explain how these actions violate any of the scientific
principles of sustainability.
2. Use the law of conservation of matter (mass) and the two laws of
thermodynamics (energy) to explain why even recycling and reuse cannot lead
to sustainability, especially on a planet with an exponentially growing
population using ever
–
increasing amou
nts of energy and materials and
producing ever
–
increasing amounts of waste.
3. Why do we need to make a new energy transition over the next few decades?
4. You are in charge of the world. Make a numbered list of the three most
important components of y
our strategy for dealing with each of the following:
(a) solid waste, and
(b) hazardous waste.
5. Man
–
made chemicals are considered innocent until proven guilty
–
consider
PCB’s, for example. What might be a better policy regarding the introduction of
n
ew chemicals into the environment, considering what we’ve learned the hard
way since the beginning of the industrial revolution?
6. What are three consumption patterns or other aspects of your lifestyle that
directly add greenhouse gases to the atmosphe
re?
7. Why are most of the largest urban areas located near water?
8. What effect might climate change due to human caused global warming have
ENV330
1. Make a numbered list of five ways in which you unnecessarily waste energy
during a typical day and explain how these actions violate any of the scientific
principles of sustainability.
2. Use the law of conservation of matter (mass) and the two laws of
thermodynamics (energy) to explain why even recycling and reuse cannot lead
to sustainability, especially on a planet with an exponentially growing
population using ever-increasing amounts of energy and materials and
producing ever-increasing amounts of waste.
3. Why do we need to make a new energy transition over the next few decades?
4. You are in charge of the world. Make a numbered list of the three most
important components of your strategy for dealing with each of the following:
(a) solid waste, and
(b) hazardous waste.
5. Man-made chemicals are considered innocent until proven guilty – consider
PCB’s, for example. What might be a better policy regarding the introduction of
new chemicals into the environment, considering what we’ve learned the hard
way since the beginning of the industrial revolution?
6. What are three consumption patterns or other aspects of your lifestyle that
directly add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
7. Why are most of the largest urban areas located near water?
8. What effect might climate change due to human caused global warming have
