APEC100 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide
9 Mar 2017
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The fact that millionaires can live less than 10 miles away from extreme poverty all over the world. Sustainable development: challenge of balancing human well-being and environmental protection. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Anthropogenic caused or produced by humans. Developed nations have better checks on government regulation than developing nations. Coal, uranium, oil, nonmetallic minerals, metallic minerals. Millennium goals: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat aids/hiv, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, develop global partnership for development. World population rising in developing countries, yet stays constant in developed nations. Family size is larger in developing nations. Hope of changing the practices of science, the organization of universities, and the processes that link knowledge and action (economists work with scientists) Environmental and human costs have never been higher.
