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fand aclivities that have no intrinsic monetary (money) value-but that are nevertheless n oher ways-into dems and activities that can be bought and sold in the marketplace is caled valuable and evern and this is central to the 12 The conversion of ogic of the cuture of capitalism as a system because (a) tupscaling/ it makes ordinary, working class people desires to buy more and hink they need to be ike he so that (b) marketing'it stimulates our (c)commodification"l it insures consume more so that we feel (d) cosumpton'' it means that human beings are out to destroy constant economic growth by constanby creating new things thpt by constantly wanting and consume more and about ourselves about our capitalist system with respect to environmental problems such as climate change. We identifed a or set of consequences of the workings of the market that costs or causes harm to a third party and we noled 13 In class some specific consequence or set that the main issue with them, with respect to the effect of our current market (a) postive externalityl to lead (b) bounded irrationality to on the environment is (c) negative extemalityl our (d) risk assessment large oil current market does not "price ㎝se people to make irrational more envi, companies pressure politicians to deny the long-serm risks of global climate change onmentally-friendly consumer consumer choices that lead to in" the actual environmental environmental destruction costs of what we consume 14 One of he most damaging aspects of the Dominant Western Worldview (DWVy is its inherent human exceptionalism, which contains the following deas except (a) Humans are unique among (b) Culture can change almost (c) Humans live in a frite the earth's specles because we infinitely, so humans don't have biophysical environment t (d) Human sociebes can that continue without limit because of culture to about natural limits s restraints on us All of the following are elements of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) except (a) Humans are just lke any other animal species on the planet, subject to the same ecological laws that cannot be feedback mechanisms in the 15 (b) Humans are shaped by (c) Humans have exceptional characteristics, but we remain one of many species that are d)Although human iventiveness carrying capacity limits social and cultural forces, but also by cause, effiect and exdend interdependent in ecosystems ecological laws cannot be transcended by human cuiture natural environment 16 The diagram below depicts the Three Pillars of Sustainabilty' that we discussed at the beginning of the class. Having completed this course, which statement below would you say correctly locates and interprets the relationship among these three pillars? (a) We need to begin seeing the environment (#3) as embedded in society (#2) because only (b) We need to begin (c) We need to begin (d) We need to begin seeing the environment (#3) as embedded ite as only one part ofsociety embedded ite economy ( 2) sothat we can develop models of the economy as seeing te economy (83) seeing society (#3) as (82).and bot, society and economy ( 2) sothat the free market can develop technology can we create the-green. economy (#1) of the future economic growwth that embedded within-and solutions to the problems benefit all of society (#1) connected t--the natural wehave created for te environment 17 Juliet Schor (The Overspent American) noted effects of our curent'competove co on our ives and socilety. Which of the (c) Our over-parsopation in the (d) The upscaling" that Schor olowing statements, based on Schor's analysis, is incorrect? (a) Americans have taken on (b) As private accumulation debt to support their consumer grows, people ifestyles, resulting in the need of public (tax-supported) sees as characteristic of our competoive consumption become resentu system causes us to have less current system of competitive investments that would beneft sme for family, recreation, civic consumpton is caused by noneconomic institutions such as engagement, thus weakening individuals, not by our system of schools, parks and public asses these noneconomic institutions associated with using GDP as our measure of social progress except (b) social problems such as pollution 18 The statements below are problems (d) higher GDP typically means more consumption, which leads to (c) higher GDP does not economic cuuthe (c) The logic of the SPI is to (a) higher GDP doesn't human Which of the following is not true of our discussions of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) vs. the Social social conditions of opportunity, basic human needs, wellbeing directly, rather than Progress Index (SP) as measuresof 19 societal health and welbeing? (a) SPI soore and GDP track with each other, but only to a point, beyond which GDP growth adds little to SPI score (d) The SPl shows that many welbeing across societies, not lifestyle in modern America, we (d) our Iifestyle is deeply rooted and economic (b) The central measure in the c factors contribute to human measure SPI is GOP, but it also measures relying solely on GOP measures just economic and foundations of welbeing As discussed in reading and in class, when we apply the concept of the ecological footprinlt" to our current r Ifestyle is rapidly nearing (o) Business as usual cant go (e) our ifestyle condnualy in longstanding cultural, politscal expropriates natural resources on if we want to stay below 2 sustainability due to and

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12. The correct answer is Option C. This is known as commodification.
13. The correct answer is Option C. This is known as negative externality.
14. The correct answer is Option C. It disregards the idea that humans live in a finite biophysical environment.
15. The correct answer is Option A. The theory does not hold that human culture cannot transcend ecological laws.
Please post the other questions separately as we are supposed to answer just one question or four sub parts of the same question.