Human activities can degrade natural capital by using normally renewable resources faster than nature can restore them.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

“Human activities can degrade natural capital by using normally renewable resources faster than nature can restore them.”

A	true
B	false
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Human activities add pollutants to the Earth’s air, water and land, poison wildlife, disrupt nutrient cycles and use renewable resources faster than nature can restore them, thereby, degrading natural capital.

Detailed explanation-2: -We degrade natural capital by cutting down trees faster than they can grow back, replacing diverse and sustainable forests with croplands, and adding harmful chemicals and wastes to streams and oceans faster than they can cleanse themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Concept 1-4 Living sustainably means living off the earth’s natural income without depleting or degrading the natural capital that supplies it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Greenhouse gas emissions. Is the present value of each metric ton of CO2 equivalents emitted now, taking account of the full global cost of the damage that it imposes during its time in the atmosphere. Water abstraction. Land use. Land & Water pollution. Air pollution. Waste.

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