Unit 1 ESS

5. Assessment of environmental, social, and economic impacts before a project.
7. 2006 documentary by Davis Guggenheim highlighting climate change.
9. Addition of a substance or agent to the environment through human activity.
10. Pollutant that cannot be broken down in a reasonable time.
11. 1962 book by Rachel Carson that raised awareness about pesticides.
12. Natural resources providing sustainable goods or services.
13. 1984 industrial disaster in India.
15. Species used to measure pollution levels in an environment.
16. James Lovelocks's hypothesis that the Earth is a self-regulating system.
18. 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine
19. Land and water area needed to provide resources for a population sustainably.

1. Worldview arguing that humans must sustainably manage the global system.
2. Worldview that technological developments can solve environmental problems.
3. Pollution from a single identifiable site.
4. Process caused by excess nutrients, leading to algal blooms and oxygen depletion.
5. Worldview putting ecology and nature at the center.
6. Use of resources allowing natural replacement and recovery of ecosystems.
8. 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan.
14. Capable of being broken down by natural biological processes.
17. Pollution from numerous dispersed sources.