1. Which of the following beliefs or behaviors is most strongly linked to someone for whom the Environmental Economics theme is a key component of their overall worldview ?

1) that assessing economic health must factor in environmental health 

2) that human beings are part of nature, not its rulers    

3) in retiring ecological debt               4) in environmentally sustainable development

5) in a philosophy of "enoughness" and appreciation of environmental limits 

2.  All of the following are associated with decreasing carbon dioxide emissions except which one?  

1) carbon  tax         2) increasing carbon footprint         3) cap and trade

4) carbon capture and storage            5) reducing deforestation

3. You'd expect someone who values the Big Business Pushes Global Limits theme over the Environmental Economics one to also____________________________.   

1) argue that fossil fuels like abundant coal need to largely stay safely in the ground      

2) expect future geoengineering will be needed to address climate change

3) advocate reining in economic growth     4)  advocate breaking up multinational mining companies         

5) push for more regulation of the economy 

4.   Ecosystem services   _____________________________________. 

1) can be summarized by “have now, pay later”         

2) --their collapse is what the tragedy of the commons is about   

3) are ignored by conventional economics                 4) is another name for natural capital

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5.  Someone who prefers the Big Business Pushes Global Limits theme over the Environmental Economics theme might argue that there is great undeveloped potential that will need to be fully developed in upcoming decades in all of the following technologies except which? 

1) genetic engineering               2) carbon capture and storage                  3) hydroelectricity from dams      

4) nuclear energy--fission                 5) nuclear energy--fusion

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6.   Someone for whom the Environmental Economics theme is a key component of their overall worldview would like to see increases in doing all of the following except which ? 

1) cap and trade incentives                   2) carbon taxes               3) using up natural capital                    

4) increasing energy efficiency                    5) strengthening environmental impact analysis requirements 

7.  The phrase “a limit is placed on the amount of some pollutant allowed to be released” might be part of the definition of which of the terms below? 

1) overshoot and collapse                    2) ecological debt                      3) pollution control technology

4) cap and trade                                     5) carbon capture and storage  

8. An environmental impact analysis is a procedure that examines a proposed development project and includes all of the following except which one? It ___________________________. 

1) is required before any project on private or public land can begin 

2) identifies and assesses possible impacts and identifying tradeoffs

3) formulates and evaluates other alternatives to the proposed development

4) makes recommendations including designating a preferred alternative 

5) makes plans for monitoring impact related quantities of interest

9.  If one is needed, the geoengineering scheme preferred by those who like the Environmental Economics theme would involve _______________________________.

1) using space-based mirrors to reflect unwanted solar radiation back into space

2) adding iron to the oceans to increase carbon dioxide absorption 

3) adding sulfates to the atmosphere to create haze blocking solar radiation  

4) painting all building walls white          5) massive planting of efficient carbon absorbing trees

10.   Which of the following associations is inappropriate?

1) ecosystem service / wetlands provide a natural water regulation (flood control)

2) environmental regulations / critics charge they cut economic output and reduce GDP 

3) nuclear power plants  / produce just 2% of the electricity used worldwide. 

4) climate change / human activity deemed responsible for

5)  carbon tax  / aims to put fossil-burning environmental cost into the market system prices

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