Natural Resource - Natural occurring materials on the Earths's surface
Demand - Need and desire to purchase a particular product
Supply - Amount of good available to customers to satisfy their needs
Resource scarcity - Demand is greater than supply of natural resource
Greed - Excessive desire or something e.g money
Need - Requiring of resources because they are essential
Resource extraction - Removal of materials from Earth's surface
Mass Production -
Manufacturing of large quantities of products
Mass Consumption -
Purchase of products i large numbers
Waste generation - discarded or disposed materials
Economic Growth - Increase in production of economic goods and services
Increased wealth - Large amount of money/valuable possessions
Increased standard of living (development)
Decreased quality of life - Lowering the quality of life e.g lack of basic needs
Impacts - influence or marked effect
Destruction - Process or action of causing damage to something that it can no longer be used
Pollution - Introduction of harmful and unwanted components to the environment
Resource Depletion - exhaustion and completion of raw materials
Environmental activism - Actions of individual to protect/aid the environment
Sustainability -
Meeting the needs of people without compromising the planet and still making profit
Negative externalities - Third party costed by product consumption or production e.g air pollution
Tragedy of the commons - One with access to public resources acts in their interest depleting resources
Environmental policy - Govern of mutual relationship between human and environment
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Gradient of green: 1. Sustainability
2. Resource consumption
Gradient of orange:1. Economic growth
2. Outcomes
Red - Solution
