A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on environmental sustainability. The instructor explains ...

A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on environmental sustainability. The instructor explains that this is a critical issue to the global environment and an important emerging public health issue.
 
  Some of the issues addressed within environmental sustainability include which of the following?
  Select all that apply.
  A. Preventing environmental exposure
  B. Maintaining the funding for research and development for alternative energy
  C. The rates in which renewable resources are harvested
  D. The rates of depletion of nonrenewable resources
  E. The creation of pollution that can continue for an indefinite period of time