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- 3. Warming, The increasing average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, water, and land, caused by the accumulation of various greenhouse gases that collect in the atmosphere.
- 4. Energy, Energy that is nonpolluting and/or renewable.
- 5. Climate Accord, An international agreement which calls for the countries of the world to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to ward off what could become extinction-level global warming and climate change.
- 6. Farms, Large solar arrays owned by utility companies to contribute to their electricity supply, which is then sold to consumers.
- 8. development, The balancing point at which all human beings can live healthy, equitable, and peaceful lives without degrading our natural environment.
- 10. Overshoot Day, The approximate date on which humanity's annual demand on the plant's resources exceeds what our planet can renew in a year.
- 12. obsolescence, The perception that a product is obsolete; used as a marketing tool to convince consumers to replace certain items even thought the items are still repairable.
- 14. The diversity of living organisms on Earth.
- 17. Revolving Funds, College and university funds that are dedicated to financing cost-saving energy-efficient upgrades and other projects that decrease resource use and minimize environmental impacts.
- 19. The degradation of semiarid land, which results in the expansion of desert land that is unusable for agriculture.
- 20. The way environmentally and socially damaging companies portray their corporate image and products as being "environmentally friendly" or socially responsible.
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- 1. removal, A process of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are dynamited and removed to access coal seams below.
- 2. Power Plan, Establishes the first-ever federal limits on carbon emissions from US power plants.
- 7. obsolescence, The manufacturing of products that are intended to become inoperative or outdated in a fairly short period of time.
- 9. A biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving, physical components of the environment that interact to keep the whole ecosystem functioning.
- 11. Protocol, The first international agreement to place legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions from developed countries.
- 13. The use or threatened use of illegal force by groups or individuals in order to protect environmental and/or animal rights.
- 15. ecology, The view that maintaining the Earth's natural systems should take precedence over human needs, that nature has a value independent of human existence, and that humans have no right to dominate Earth and its living inhabitants.
- 16. deniers, People who do not accept the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming and climate change are scientific facts.
- 18. supremacy, A largely unconscious belief that humans are the masters of creation rather than just one species among millions.