EC238 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nonpoint Source Pollution, Environment And Climate Change Canada, Municipal Solid Waste
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Chapter 2 natural capital, linkages between the economy and the environment, and pollution. Canada"s natural capital is the stock of natural and environmental resources that sustain our ecosystems, economy, and well-being of our residents. Natural capital has huge intrinsic value it sustains life economic activity, and well-being. Nature is capable of producing goods and services over time. Nature is depletable if there is not enough reinvestment in sustaining the capital stock. Sustaining our natural capital at a healthy level is essential to sustain our population any economic system. A resource that is vitally important to the survival of all species resides not in any one substance but in a collection of elements: biological diversity. All materials in consumer goods must eventually end up as residuals, even though some may be recycled along the way. Reducing the flow of residual wastes into the environment.
