Environmental Science Questions

Ch. 1

Critical Thinking

1. I feel like it would be because it would give a better explanation on how people can help the environment. This will also give more people a better incite on that to do and what they can change to help the environment. This will also give people more knowledge on natural resources. I actual didn't know what human dimension was till this class. Now I have a better incite on this subject myself.

2. It gives me a little bet of both. Hope because we will become more of a technology world. It gives me fear because it will away from the hands on part of life. It would be less online things and not enough people to talk to when you have problems and able to walk you thru something.

3. I favor Utilitarian conversation because I feel that people should start using more resources that are available to them. I also feel that forests shouldn't be cut down and that it helps the animals and the environment. Without the animals and the plants that they eat the air would become more polluted. The trees help with cleaning the air, so that is why the forests shouldn't be cut down.

4. It has 60 categories including the primary commodities such as (wood, milk, and metals). Its disadvantages of this would be that it can be less accurate in the measurements. The advantage of it would be that it shows a good estimate of how the footprint is growing in the different areas.

5. I think that it could be more resources for middle class people to live decent secure happy lives. To me decent means to not have to live from check to the next. To have a safety net for the family. As far as secure to me that means to have a stable job/ career and not have to worry about the economy changing and you losing your or being let go from a job. Happiness is what a person makes it. To me happiness is not to have to struggle and be able to show my family a nice time out with our having to worry about my finance's.

6. Sustainable means living with the bounds of nature based on renewable resources used in ways that don't deplete nonrenewable resources. So I think that in order for Human Development to be truly sustainable resources would have to be renewable. Nonrenewable resources have to be used in ways that allows it to be used in many ways.

7. I am optimistic about our chances of becoming sustainable. I feel like this is possible because as time goes on education is more advanced and people are more knowledgeable of different natural resources. Its more research and deployment in today's world and as time goes on it will get better and more advanced. It's more environment research that helps people become more knowledgeable on the environment.