The "tragedy of the commons" refers to the ____.
A. overuse of privately held resources
B. degradation of shared common resources
C. human deaths resulting polluted shared resources such as air or water
D. government over-regulation of fresh water use
E. use of nonrenewable resources
Answer: B
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a. searches for fuel produced by plants b. tests plants and animals in tropical forests, and other ecosystems, to find chemicals that are potentially useful as medicinal drugs c. searches for truffles with the use of pigs to sniff out their partially hidden locations d. searches for oil and natural gas in areas below biologically rich ecosystems e. has a degree in biology but prospects for gold or other metals
Buddhism began to diffuse eastward to China
A) only after the texts were translated into Chinese. B) only when Asoka mandated Buddhism as the official religion. C) only when the Magadhan Empire collapse. D) only when trade routes were actively traveled. E) only when it lost its support in India.
A preeminent international location for business decision making and corporate services is called
A) an urban agglomeration. B) a global city. C) an exurb. D) a major city. E) central business district.
One of the problems with finding new fossil fuel deposits in developing countries is that ________
A) their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without meeting expensive environmental regulations B) those countries tend to keep the resource for themselves, not sharing with other countries C) it is very expensive to transport the deposit elsewhere D) their governments seldom allow extraction of the deposit without imposing huge taxes to fund new social benefits for the country E) multinational companies often move in to harvest the new deposit, and very little money or resource remains in the country