EVR 1017 Lecture 5: EVR 1017 Notes
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Holistic- relating to or concerned with whole or complete systems. Non-living: organic and inorganic minerals, water, gases, chemicalsenergy. Human organizations and behaviors: social identities and relations. Living sustainable- living off the earth"s natural income without depleting or degrading the natural capital that supplies us. Living sustainably means living off the earth"s renewable resources provided by the natural capital. (to live sustainably) we must avoid depleting the natural capital that supplies renewable resources. Quantity and quality of inputs and outputs influences the wellbeing of the ecological and human system. The planet doesn"t need humans, humans need the planet. The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply people with resources needed and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use. Currently our ecological footprints are growing, and we are increasingly depleting and degrading more of the earth"s natural capital.
