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Burning biofuels seems like a great way to exploit carbon-based fuels while
approaching net zero increase in atmospheric carbon until you remember: -
✔✔Growing biomass for fuel implicates Nitrogen in fertilizer use (which
comes through an energy intensive process).
Phosphorus is used in fertilizers and must be mined.
Even if the biofuel is from a non-food source, it usually requires fairly intensive care
to optimize production.
The polarization in public debate over topics like climate change helps to clarify
the arguments and establish clear "sides". - ✔✔False
Despite the fact that humans are responsible for mobilizing under 10% of the carbon
on earth (compared to 90% of the iron!), it is vital to remember that: - ✔✔Almost all
of the human-mobilized portion ends up in the atmosphere.
The _______ world was responsible for the most global trading about 1000 years ago. -
✔✔Islamic
The nation-state is a technology which evolved to:
Ensure recognition of sovereignty within artificial geo-political borders
Manage the complexity of merged people groups as a unit
Become the primary source of authority in global affairs
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
The acronym, NGO, stands for: - ✔✔non-governmental organization
Fundamentalisms (of all kinds including environmental, economic, religious,
etc.) generally arise in response to: - ✔✔increasing rates of change and
increasing complexity in the world
Since its inception, the dominance of the nation-state in world affairs has been obvious,
but lately absolute nation-state control has been diluted by the rise of - ✔✔Numerous
NGOs, trans- and multi-national corporations, and (presumably) non-political global
bodies like the UN
Recent nation-state employment of private military companies makes us all more aware
of the tragedies of war. - ✔✔False
,Information technology changes faster than:
Law
Culture
Ethical structures
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
Now that the internet is established, the information growth in the world is slowing
down. - ✔✔False
Important trend(s) associated with technological evolution are:
Evolution towards greater complexity
Evolution towards increasing systems connectivity, and thus increasing system
scale and scope
Continuing substitution of physical labor with information technology
systems All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
The term technology includes:
Artifacts, machines, and physical products
Information systems
Institutional frameworks
All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
The logistic growth (S) curve:
A. shows how technology develops at a snail's pace
B. shows slow(ish) development of technology followed by rapid uptake and then
market saturation
C. shows the population trend of flour beetles in a bag of flour
D. B and C - ✔✔D. B and C
The Environmental Master Equation includes all of the following terms except:
Percent of resource emitted into the atmosphere
Resource use per person
Environmental impact per unit of resource use Population -
✔✔Percent of resource emitted into the atmosphere
The term "Environmental impact per unit of resource use" in the Environmental
Master Equation is most significantly affected by: - ✔✔Technology
In the environmental master equation:
Environmental impact = (population) X (resource use per unit population) X
(environmental impact per unit of resource use)
, which of the three parameters can we reasonably control? -
✔✔(environmental impact per unit of resource use)
Which of these has the greatest impact on birthrates?
Education level of women
Access to food
Legal controls on the number of babies per family
Social construction of family units - ✔✔Education level of women
Sustainable chemistry takes into account which of the following factors?
Economic
Social
All of the above
Environmental - ✔✔All of the above
Green chemistry takes into account which of the following factors:
Environmental
Economic
All of the above
None of the above
Social - ✔✔All of the above
Urbanization is rapidly ________ worldwide, where most of the change is occurring in
the ________ world. - ✔✔Increasing, Developing
Mass-migration to urban centers in developing countries tends to simplify the
political, social, economic, and engineering challenges. - ✔✔False
In general, history has shown that as a country develops, the services sector ______
and the agriculture sector ______. - ✔✔Grows, Shrinks
Robots, automation, and AI expert systems are only a concern for low-skilled labor jobs
- ✔✔False
Social equity is a difficult goal for sustainability because - ✔✔it is defined dramatically
differently in different worldviews
Suggested differences between simple and complex systems are:
1) A complex system will have difficult to identify operational thresholds and tolerances,
and may operate without a specifically identifiable equilibrium.
2) All of the above.
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