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SUST CHAPTER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 What are the two concepts relating to a vision for the future - AnswersSustainable development Resilience What makes people realize unprecedented environmental changes - AnswersA distribution Examples of a disruption - AnswersFlooding Drought Fire Volcanic eruption Examples of environmental changes providing positive change - AnswersReducing use of plastics China not accepting discarded plastics Trying to solve water shortage in South Africa What is the main driving force behind environmental changes - AnswersHuman activities What is the relationship between people and nature - AnswersReciprocal, not one way How is the relationship between earth and humans reciprocal - AnswersHumans thrive due to natural environment People impact the natural world and its systems How do attitudes and expectations change around consumption - AnswersSocial pressures New experiences- environmental change that didn't occur before Economic factors Why do people want to trans mountain pipeline (3) - Answers- Allow petroleum from Berta to reach new markets - Creates jobs - Economic benefits Why don't people want the trans mountain pipeline (5) - Answers- Bitumen is difficult to remove when spilled - Harms waterways and fish - Goes through Indigenous land - Promoting fossil fuels and climate change - Increased tanker traffic What did the trans mountain pipeline raise questions about - AnswersThe role of the federal government in interprovincial projects What 3 factors are important in environmental decisions - AnswersPolitical Legal Economic What is a wicked problem - AnswersIll defined, incomplete/ contradictory info, many stakeholders with opposing views, could trigger new problems, not one solution Wha is the Anthropocene - AnswersInfluence of humans on the planet and its processes Key drivers to the Anthropocene (4) - AnswersIndustrial Revolution- medical advancements, technology advancements Growing population Energy consumption Economic expansions What used to fuel all life on earth - AnswersThe sun What is today's epoch - AnswersAnthropocene What is a super wicked problem - AnswersWe are running out of time to take action What is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - AnswersEvaluates the impact of ecosystem changes on human well being What did new sources of energy- not from the sun- result in (4) - AnswersIncreased food supplies Increased industry Growing population Pollution What is total fertility rate - AnswersAverage number of children a woman will have Over 2= population growth What is the demographic transition - AnswersShows the relationship between economic growth and population 4 phases of the democratic transition - Answers1: High equilibrium (high B, high D) 2: High expanding (high B, low D) 3. Low expanding (falling B, low D) 4: low equilibrium (low B, low D) What does the demographic transition lead to - AnswersStabilizing populations What factors lower fertility rates - AnswersStatus of women Cultural factors Education Urbanization (more expensive to live in cities for large family) Are fertility rates declining as projected? - AnswersNo, more slowly What is forced environmental migration - AnswersMigration due to environmental degradation Surroundings are uninhabitable or destroy livelihoods What is an income turning point - AnswersEnvironmental degradation increases only up to a threshold How does environmental degradation and economic growth effect each other - AnswersKuzbet curve Degradation can increases with economic advancements, but reaches a threshold where degradation declines Why does the income Turing point happen - AnswersMore wealth= more activities Certain point of wealth reached= environmental improvement Why does a certain amount of wealth lead to environmental improvement (3) - Answers- Enough money to pay for mitigation - Can afford environmental alternative (electric cars, solar panels) - Don't have financial stress- capacity to learn about the environment How much consumption is for 12% of the population - Answers60% Why is Canadas willingness to address state of climate retreat declining - AnswersPrioritizing economy more than the environment How are environmental views determined by politics - AnswersGreen house effect vs the White House effect Why has Canada retreated back from the income turning point - AnswersPrices increasing- food, housing Covid Economic uncertainty

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SUST CHAPTER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

What are the two concepts relating to a vision for the future - AnswersSustainable development
Resilience
What makes people realize unprecedented environmental changes - AnswersA distribution
Examples of a disruption - AnswersFlooding
Drought
Fire
Volcanic eruption
Examples of environmental changes providing positive change - AnswersReducing use of plastics
China not accepting discarded plastics
Trying to solve water shortage in South Africa
What is the main driving force behind environmental changes - AnswersHuman activities
What is the relationship between people and nature - AnswersReciprocal, not one way
How is the relationship between earth and humans reciprocal - AnswersHumans thrive due to natural
environment
People impact the natural world and its systems
How do attitudes and expectations change around consumption - AnswersSocial pressures
New experiences- environmental change that didn't occur before
Economic factors
Why do people want to trans mountain pipeline (3) - Answers- Allow petroleum from Berta to reach
new markets
- Creates jobs
- Economic benefits
Why don't people want the trans mountain pipeline (5) - Answers- Bitumen is difficult to remove
when spilled
- Harms waterways and fish
- Goes through Indigenous land
- Promoting fossil fuels and climate change
- Increased tanker traffic
What did the trans mountain pipeline raise questions about - AnswersThe role of the federal
government in interprovincial projects
What 3 factors are important in environmental decisions - AnswersPolitical
Legal
Economic
What is a wicked problem - AnswersIll defined, incomplete/ contradictory info, many stakeholders
with opposing views, could trigger new problems, not one solution
Wha is the Anthropocene - AnswersInfluence of humans on the planet and its processes
Key drivers to the Anthropocene (4) - AnswersIndustrial Revolution- medical advancements,
technology advancements
Growing population
Energy consumption
Economic expansions
What used to fuel all life on earth - AnswersThe sun
What is today's epoch - AnswersAnthropocene
What is a super wicked problem - AnswersWe are running out of time to take action
What is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - AnswersEvaluates the impact of ecosystem changes
on human well being
What did new sources of energy- not from the sun- result in (4) - AnswersIncreased food supplies
Increased industry
Growing population
Pollution
What is total fertility rate - AnswersAverage number of children a woman will have
Over 2= population growth
What is the demographic transition - AnswersShows the relationship between economic growth and
population
4 phases of the democratic transition - Answers1: High equilibrium (high B, high D)

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