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If biophilia has been so evolutionarily embedded in our genomes, why must it take so long, and so many more organisms’ to become extinct before we actually start acting like we care about our planet? Humans since the beginning of time, was basically interested in finding food. As time progressed, they became involved in securing land to protect their consumption of food and water. Humans’ desire was only a matter of survival, nothing more. They were not concerned about any environment issues, nor had they even heard of it back in the early days.
Where does most of our basic grain foods come from? It’s from what some may call “America’s Heartland” (“Regionalism and the Great Plains: Problems of Concept and method”) in which Frederick C. Luebke, means in his study of films dealing with terms that interplay between environment and culture; which he best describes his studies and of through appropriate comparisons in time, space, and culture. His study on the film of the (Victor Fleming, 1939) “Wizard of Oz” is a very good example.
The “Wizard of Oz” gave the viewing audience the visual of “the farmhouse”, the flatland of Kansas. The tornado destroyed everything. Dorothy’s deep desire, of returning home. There is no place like home. We all knew that they were farmers, but there was never any mention of it. You just knew it because of the visual effect. Global warming is affecting everything from our air, water, our soil which helps produce our food. Climate is changing, however just what is changing it, and is there something that can be done about the change in our environment?
Homework and Study Environment
Program in Nursing Online Environment March 28, 2011 An online learning environment can be new to some students (Watkins, R. , & Corry, M. , 2009). To be successful in the online environment, there are strategies that can help. The purpose of this paper is to present two strategies for success in an online learning environment. Scheduling time to complete coursework In order to be ...
At Warren Wilson College, in Asheville, NC. David Moulton, director of climate change policy, at The Wilderness Society.”Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our nation – from the Pisgah and the Nantahala here in North Carolina.” He went on to explain it went all the way to the coast, the heartland plains, and the snow-covered mountains peaks. That a warming world is affecting all these different areas in different ways.
You and I have to reduce carbon dioxide emission. We learned about Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystems in Chapter 18 of our text in (Campbell, 2010 p.397).
It stated that our climate change is totally knocking everything out of whack. Nature causes many things to happen, like most of our insurance policies read; acts of natures: floods, forest fires, tornados. Which in turn we are not really at the main cause of nature, it is what we basically have done to our atmosphere that is causing our atmosphere to produce more floods, more forest fires and more tornados.
During the first Earth Day protest in 1970, Margaret Mead, the American Anthropologist and proto-environmentalist, issued a call to action. “We have to learn to cherish this earth as it is something that’s fragile, that’s only one, it’s all we have. (Newsweek) This was back before they even thought about hybrid cars, communicating on cell phones, or Online Education.
I found another interesting item called “Drink Your Garbage”. It was how they could take the plastic which is made of petroleum and reuse the plastic. Making us less depended on oil. The household electronics that are discarded have elements like nickel, copper, and lithium. They said that is the plans in Belgium where a British company, Advanced Plasma Power, plans to come in and working on their landfills, to get the buried metals as well as the methane gas. (Newsweek)
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The Term Paper on Climate Change
Introduction What is the oceans role in climate? The oceans play a vital and pivotal role in the distribution of life sustaining water throughout our planet. 86% of the evaporation that occurs on earth is over the oceans. The oceans are the planets largest reservoir of water transferring huge amounts of water around the hydrological cycle. In fact the oceans dominate the hydrological cycle, for ...
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