People

Question 1

What is I = PAT? Sustainability S =?

Answer 1

I (impact on env)
P(population)
A(Affluence)
T(technology)
S = AT

Question 2

What is a Preservationist?

Answer 2

• keep humans out!

- do anything to keep nature sustained

Question 3

Conservationist

Answer 3

• humans can use nature
• morally okay if it’s fair use
• plan to use and renew a resource

Question 4

Environmentalists

Answer 4

• supports sustainability (A*T)
• population agree to policy
• help environment as individuals
• more preservationist thinking
• can work with conservation?

Question 5

Rachel Carson

Answer 5

Environmentalist
(1907-1964)
- against pollution
- exposes pesticides

Question 6

George Perkins Marsh

Answer 6

Conservationist
(1801-1882)
- First to start documenting human impact on environment
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Question 7

Grifford Pinchot

Answer 7

Conservationist
(1865-1946)
- First chief of US forest reserve Dep. of Agriculture
- made an effort to ensure forest production maximization

Question 8

Paul Ehrlich

Answer 8

Environmentalist
(1932-present)
- population (P) makes sustainability (A*T) hard to deal with
- some say T is largest contributor to impact (I)

(I = PAT)

Question 10

Dorothea Lange

Answer 10

Environmentalist
(1895-1965)
- the movement of people
- worked with farm security administration

Question 11

Ansel Adams

Answer 11

Preservationist (1902-1984)

Question 12

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 12

Conservationist 
(1882-1945)
- Democrat
- loves trees
- planted 3 billion trees for up to 800 parks

Question 13

John Muir

Answer 13

Preservationist

Question 13

Aldo Leopold

Answer 13

Preservationist 
(1887-1948)
More of a Restorationsist.
- rejected utilitarian
- New Deal. Wilderness Society (1935)

Question 14

Indians

Answer 14

?Conservationists?

• Population increased
• Deforested for crop
• used fire to maximize game

Question 15

Theodore Rosevelt

Answer 15

Conservationist 
(1858-1919)
President. Republican.
- worked with John Muir but leaned more toward Pinchot’s thinking
- hunter
- approved lots of damns

Question 16

Barry Commoner

Answer 16

Environmentalist
(1917-2012)
- sustainability (created idea)
- nukes are a bad thing

Question 17

Adam Smith

Answer 17

Economist

• first economist
• economics makes environmentalists angry
• environmental problems come from 4 major market failures

See notes (lecture 7-8)for info on these failures and how the gov worked to solve them.