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'''Spring 2008'''

Due February 8th, 2008.  Please type up your answers in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, OpenOffice Writer or RTF file format, and email to me before midnight on Friday 8th.  Do not post your answers on the wiki.

# Explain briefly the meaning of the following terms: Sustainable development, Agenda 21, social democracy, FTSE4Good.
#(~200 words) Discuss the meaning of Fig 1.2 in Dorf (pages 7-8).  Be sure to explain the effects of affluence and urbanization on population. 
#(a) (~300 words) Explain how poverty in Mozambique is leading to environmental damage in coastal areas.  What specific problems are noted in the BBC report on the topic?<br/>(b) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Mendes Chico Mendes] once said, "Poverty is the enemy of the environment."  Try to suggest '''specific''' ways that poverty may harm the environment or inadvertently help the environment. 
#(~200 words) What materials might be obtained from the Moon and asteroids, to help us deal with dwindling resources on Earth?  How could these resources be used to help us produce solar energy?  
# (~200 words) What does Lester Brown believe is wrong with the present system of economics?  How can the market system be changed so that people begin to make economic choices that take into the environmental costs?
#(300-400 words) Taking into consideration your answers to the previous two questions, give your own hypothesis for the future.  Do you think Lewis's approach is viable?  Brown's? Both?  Or do you have a third approach which is different from both?  Do not just give your "feelings," you must argue your case rationally using scientific evidence (where possible) to support your hypothesis.

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