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ENVS 1126 EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS { GRADED A+} Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring - described the environmental effects of pesticides environmentalist's paradox - Over the past 40 years, human well-being has improved, BUT Natural ecosystems that provide us with...

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A+}




Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring -✔✔ described the environmental

effects of


pesticides


environmentalist's paradox -✔✔ Over the past 40 years, human well-being has


improved, BUT


Natural ecosystems that provide us with goods


and services have declined


Four hypotheses that try to explain


the environmental paradox -✔✔ • Measurements of human well-being are flawed

,− Human well-being is actually declining


• Food production has been enhanced and


outweighs the declines in other ecosystem


services


• Technology makes humans less dependent on


ecosystem services


• There is a time lag between ecosystem decline


and human well-being


Four important global trends can


test these hypotheses -✔✔ Human population and well-being


The status of vital ecosystem services


Global climate change


A loss of biodiversity


The Human Development


Index (HDI) -✔✔ assesses the

, human well-being of nation


Health, education, basic


living standards


(has increased in most nations)


Ecosystem capital -✔✔ Ecosystems support human life and


economies with goods and services


Provisioning services -✔✔ goods like food and fuel


Regulating services -✔✔ processes like flood


protection


Cultural services -✔✔ nonmaterial benefits like


recreation


1970 -✔✔ When was the U.S. Environmental Protection


Agency created?


7.3 -✔✔ Currently, there are approximately __________ billion


people living on the planet.

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