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| I can describe how decisions to slow the depletion of energy sources through efficient technologies can be made at many levels, from personal to national.
I can describe how technologies involve trade-offs of economic costs and social values. |
Economic Costs |
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| Stability and Change |
| Looking Back | Looking Ahead |
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| Cite examples of how all fuels, renewable and nonrenewable, have advantages and disadvantages that society must question when considering the trade-offs among them, such as how energy use contributes to the rising standard of living in the industrially developing nations. However, explain that this energy use also leads to more rapid depletion of Earth’s energy resources and to environmental risks associated with the use of fossil and nuclear fuels. (Env.2.8)
Research how human consumption of finite natural resources (i.e. coal, oil, natural gas, and clean water) and human activities have had an impact on the environment (i.e. causes of air, water, soil, light, and noise pollution). (Env.2.8) |
Understand and describe how nuclear reactions release energy without the combustion products of burning fuels, but that the radioactivity of fuels and by-products poses other risks which may last for thousands of years. Understand and assess the uses of nuclear fission and fusion, including the implications for society. (Env.2.10) |