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    The environmental crisis is the biggest crisis of our time, climate change, scarcity of fresh water and bio diversity loss are just a few of the problems caused by the environmental crisis. National and international organizations try combat the dire effects of the environmental crisis like The Green Belt Movement in Kenya and The United Nations framework on Environmental Change, they create initiatives like sustainable development but they have not succeeded. My essay will introduce my interpretation

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    After 4 years of intensive drought, California declared a state of emergency in January 2015 and California water crisis has been one of the biggest environmental issues in America (US. Geological Survey, 2015). On April 1, 2015, the governor of California, Jerry Brown, visited Sierra Nevada to measure the amount of snowpack, which has been done annually, and a formidable result came out. The measurement of snowpack of Sierra Nevada of this year met only 5 percent of the April 1 average. According

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    Although many prominent politicians within the Republican Party continue to deny its’ existence, Climate Change is real. Irrefutable scientific evidence proves the earth is facing a serious environmental crisis, and the American public is taking notice. According to the EPA, 61% of Americans recognize the current status of the environment as an issue and believe action must be taken. Take action by voicing your disapproval for HR 5078, which passed in the House this past week. Encourage the Senate

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    Environmental Crisis "We Have An Environmental Crisis Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of Population Growth, of Wasteful Consumption of Resources, and A Crisis of Apathy and Inaction." An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the community that inhabits the world environment. A crisis of population growth is a turning point where the environment can no longer sustain the amounts

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    1.1.3 Ecological Design: The evident response to the environmental crisis One natural response to the current crisis and the shift in designers’ discourse has been the engagement in Ecological Design, or Eco-design, described by Orr (2002) as a large concept that joins science and the practical arts with ethics, politics, and economics that, requires “not just a set of generic design skills but rather the collective intelligence of a community of people applied to particular problems in a particular

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    This article is talking about Australia and the environmental crisis. Australia has taken a decision that the dismissal of many of the scientists who are contributing to climate change, because they learned everything you could need to know about the phenomenon of global warming. Australian scientists are concerned about this decision, because Australia is the driest and also the most affected by this phenomenon. In this state happens a lot of changes in the weather, and that this decision will

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    In an increasingly threatening environmental crisis, zoos are participating in the conservation of species. The biodiversity of the animal and plant worlds is being deeply affected, on the one hand by the disruption of ecosystems caused mainly by climate change and deforestation, and on the other hand, by the globalization of trade, travel, transport, and tourism. These two factors are increasingly reducing animals’ habitats and endangering many species (Keulartz 336). The evolution of the preservation

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    Around the world, humans are aware of the environmental crisis going on, yet, the issue is brushed under the rug and ignored. This issue is ignored due to the fact that some people are unwilling to change their lifestyles, it is expensive to be environmentally friendly, and there is a lack of effort towards change worldwide. Scientific evidence has proven that there is a crisis happening, but people show disinterest in it. Some people feel helpless because there is no way that the individual effort

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    cider that would lessen the environmental impact that other ciders put into the world. As an extension of this idea, we wanted to make a vow to buy our alcoholic beverages in bulk sizes whenever the opportunity was presented, and lessen the amount we drank. This venture was more of a side project as we knew that the cider might turn out horribly or we could make a potential mistake, along with this we would donate the money from our cans to a cause that provides environmental stability in the Rainforest

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    The Existence of Moral Direction In the essay “The Cultural Basis for our Environmental Crisis” written by Lewis Moncrief, he argues against Lynn White’s claim that our economic crisis is due to Modern Judeo-Christian belief. Moncrief proposes interested points throughout his whole paper to disprove White’s claims, but there are a few assertions that Moncrief pointed out that go against White’s claim. The three points that Moncrief extensively explained are the lack of personal moral direction in

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