Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Ability of earth's various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.

Principles by which nature has sustained itself for billions of years y relying on solar energy, biodiversity, and nutrient recycling.

All external conditions and factors, living and nonliving ( chemicals and energy ), that affect any living organism or other specified system.

Interdisciplinary study that uses information and ideas from the physical sciences, the social sciences, and humanities to learn how nature works, how we interact with the environment, and how we deal with environmental problems.

System of production, distribution, and consumption of economic goods.

Any form of life

Group of similar organisms, and for sexually reproducing organisms, they are a set of individuals that can mate and produce fertile offspring. Every organism is a member of a certain species.

Method that a group of people uses to choose which goods ad services to produce, how to produce them, how much to produce, and how to distribute them to people.

Social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support systems for us and other species.

Money and other forms of wealth that can be used to support a lifestyle or economy.

Natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies.

Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans.

Processes of nature, such as purification of air and water and pest control, which support life and human economies.

The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment (mostly soil and water) through organisms and back to the environment.

Society that meets the current and future basic needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs.