Natural Resource - Finite non reproducible resources
Demand - A firm request/need
Supply - A stockpile of resources
Resource scarcity - A small stockpile of resources
Greed - Hoarding more than your demand
Need - What you require to meet your basic human rights and fulfill maslow’s hierarchy
Resource extraction - Extracting useful material
System of production - A system of turning natural resources into useful supply
Mass Production - The mass use of a system of production
Mass Consumption - The mass consumption of a product in demand
Waste generation - The creation of exogenous, unusable waste
Habitat Destruction - the destruction natural habitats
Economic Growth - An increase in both supply and demand
Increased wealth - An increase in monetary wealth
Increased standard of living (development) - Something increasing SOL of all inhabitants of a region, making it a cultural necessity.
Decreased quality of life - A reduction in the extent to which human wants and needs are met
Negative externalities - A negative impact to a uninvolved/innocent party/object
Destruction - A difficult-to-reverse degradation
Pollution - A difficult-to-reverse degradation
Resource Depletion - the exhaustion of natural resources preventing further production
Tragedy of the commons - hoarding public resources at the expense of the whole
Environmental activism - The lorax’s attempts to make the Once Ler's aware of the impacts of their actions
Environmental policy - Rules outlining how we interact with the environment
Sustainability - The maintenance of a standard of living indefinitely
