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| The wet disposition of acids upon Earth through the natural cleansing properties of the atmosphere; acid mists, acid fogs, and smog. Created by water droplets in the clouds that absorb certain gases that later fall back to Earth. |
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A flaked, bifaced, double-edged projectile whose length is more that twice its width. Used to kill large animals such as bison.
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The interaction between the Old World( Europe) and New World (the Americas) intiated by the voyages of Columbus. This exchange consisted of diseases, plants, and animals.
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| The view that natural resources should be used wisely and that society's effects on the natural world should represent stewardship, the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving, and not exploitation. |
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The study of how human society has adapted to environmental challenges such as aridity and steep slopes through technologies such as irrigation and terracing and the organization of people to construct and maintain these systems.
- Canals in USA
- rice terraces in SE Asia
- drugs to cope with diseases
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| an approach to nature revolving around the two key components of self-realization, which embraces the view that humans must learn to recognize that they are part of the nonhuman world, and biospherical egalitarianism, which insists that the Earth(biosphere) is the central focus of all life and all components of nature, human and nonhuman, deserve the same respect and treatment. |
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The removal of trees from a forested area without adequate replanting.
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The near genocide of native populations.
The effects of diseases in Mayan Guatemala and the Central Andes of South America. |
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| the spread of desert conditions resulting from deforestation, overgrazing, and poor agricultural practices, as well as reduced rainfall associated with climate change. |
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| the perspective that a system of social ideas that values men more highly than women is at the center of our present environmental malaise, distress. Patriarchy equates women with nature and it promotes the surbordination and exploitation of both. |
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The introduction of exotic plants and animals into new ecosystems.
- The spanish introduced wheat and sugarcane ad horses, cattle, and pigs.
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| the community of different species interacting with each other and with the larger physical environment that surrounds it. |
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| A philosophical perspective on nature hat prescribes moral principles as guidance for our treatment of it. It insists that society has a moral obligation to treat nature according to rules of moral behavior that exists for treating human beings. |
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| Movement reflecting a growing political consciousness, largely among the world's poor, that their immediate environs are far more toxic than those in the wealthier neighbourhoods. |
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| the combination of political, economic,social, historical, and environmental problems with which human beings across Earth currently contend. |
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| A social creation as much as it is the physical universe that includes human beings. |
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| 1.5 million years ago. A cultural period known as the early Stone age. The period when chipped-stone tools first began to be used. Hunter-gatherers. |
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| The merging of political economy and cultural ecology that stresses human-environment relations can be adaquately understood only by reference to the relationship of patterns of resource use to political and economic forces. |
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A position that advocates that certain habitats, species, and resources should remain off limits to human use regardless of whether the use maintains or depletes the resource in question.
Earth First! |
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| A philosophy that emphasizes the interdependence of human nature. All creatures demand respect. |
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the buildup of sand and clay in a natural or artificial waterway.
Dam, aqueduct, river |
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| The sum of the inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times. |
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- Physical objects and artifacts-plow
- activities or processes- steelmaking
- knowledge or know-how- biological engineering
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| A branch of American romanticism that encourages people to attempt to rise above nature and the limitations of the body to the point where a mystical and spiritual life replaces a primitive and savage one. |
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| The conditions where the population at risk has no natural immunity or previous exposure to the disease within he lifetime of the oldest member of the group. |
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