[EVST 1000] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)
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Economic services- the world provides us with services to maintain standards of living. Environment- about built/natural environment-- interactions with humans. Bombs-- made women unable to have children. Entire population was affected by environmental catastrophe: paleobiologist perspective/ geosciences (natural phenomena) Anthropocene era- when humans started burning things and causing real harm to the environment. Environmental damage can cause things like cancer in humans. Last couple thousand years (around industrial age) Hard to stop people from fishing, etc. when it can lead to economic growth. You have to create reasons/incentives as to why they dont want to engage in harmful behaviors. ** all these things will decrease tourism and will cause country to bring in less money. 3- use battery packs to store solar/ wind power. 1- understanding why we have these problems- underlying problems. Preferences- how do we get from personal to societal and beyond when making. May have to compromise these elegant solutions to benefit humans.
