CHAPTER 1 OUTLINE: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, THEIR CAUSES, AND SUSTAINABILITY 1.1:LIVING MORE SUSTAINABLY I. We face many environmental problems: population growth increasing resource use destruction and degradation of wildlife habitats premature extinction of plants and animals poverty pollution II. We use natural resources to support our existence and lifestyles: solar capital natural capital solar energy III. An environmentally sustainable society is an ideal society that: a. satisfies the needs of its people b. without depleting or degrading …showed first 75 words of 911 total…

…showed last 75 words of 911 total…environmentally harmful and should be discouraged. Our success depends on learning how the earth sustains itself and adapts to ever-changing environmental conditions and integrating such scientific lessons from nature (environmental wisdom) into the ways we think and act. IV. Skeptics about the use of technology call for us to use our economic and political systems: to encourage environmentally beneficial forms of technology and economic growth to discourage environmentally harmful forms of technology and economic growth