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    This literature review is limited to the following parameters: natural environmental resources and indigenous beliefs and practices of the Marakwet people. This study shall rely on the following literature. Ogunade (2005), in his article, “Environmental Issues in Yoruba Religion: Implications for Leadership and Society in Nigeria” writes about the Yoruba people having rituals as a principle tool that is used to control and approach the unseen world and rearrange the physical world and bring material

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    Sustainability is “environment education”.  Learning about the environment and how natural systems function. It’s everything that we need for our survival and wellbeing relating directly to our natural surrounding. The changing climate effects society and communities in many ways. For example, climate change can affect rainfall, our health, crops, and even our energy supply among other things. Across the country and over many areas of our economy climate-related impacts are happening. Ozone layer

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    Do you think it is acceptable to take innocent, wild animals out of their natural habitat for people’s amusement? Many people who think this is acceptable do not know what is risked when holding a wild animal captivated. As every year passes, there will be more and more people and animals being harmed or killed because exotic animals are owned as pets. It should be illegal to own an exotic animal(s) as a pet because it is dangerous to the animal(s) and the people, it can prevent the animal from being

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    A New Environment Over the past few years there has been a tremendous increase in the human population, which is having a constant effect on our environment. The “world population is about 6 billion and is projected to reach 10 billion by 2040” (Pimentel). The population growth can be described as either a growth or loss in the population size of living species including human beings. The constant increase can create an issue, thus presenting the importance of understanding how we can cope with the

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    physically, and everyday of our lives. The outbreak of diseases is linked to the contamination of the environment; however, most people do not know about this problem. This fact shows that increasing environmental pollution needs to be taken care of a soon as possible, not only for the good of the environment, but also for the people that live in it. “Although environmental pollution can be caused by natural events such as forest fires and active volcanoes, use of the word pollution generally implies that

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    is one of the predilection fields of Stacy Levy and Andy Goldsworthy. Andy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist, whereas Stacy is a sculptor working on ecological natural patterns and processes. They are two artists whose body of arts are full of arrangement and placement works as well as natural involvement. Two pieces of art perfectly illustrating those characteristics are Riverine (Ikura) and the photograph 1981_023, respectively realized by Stacy and Andy. Indeed, those two

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    Natural Resources in the 1930s Economic growth comes form the use of natural resources. In the 1930’s, natural resources are what fueled the growth of the U.S. economy. The use of resources such as water, timber, coal, oil, and minerals were in very high demand. Even now there is still a market for these resources. The use of natural resources was very high in the 1930’s and the possible damage that the use of these resources was of little concern, or not even known at the time. In the 1930s the

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    In today’s fast pace society, we often do not pay much attention to the amount of natural resources we are consuming, and the limited supply of these resources that we will have in the future. The depletion of natural resources is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. All human beings depend on these natural resources for our basic needs. People often take for granted the abundance of natural resources we have as of now, and use them at an unsustainable rate, putting many

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    directly or indirectly depend on natural environment. Sustainability helps to balance financial, social, and environmental factors to facilitate responsible business decision making over the immediate and long term. . Sustainability refers to meeting the needs of present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Oxford University press 1987, p.43). Sustainability is also being protective and aware of use of natural resources and development that meets

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    bear the burden that comes with changes in the environment. Activities that humans engage in can have an affect many times greater on wildlife. Activities like deforestation for housing developments or overfishing to provide for a high demand of seafood. Drilling for oil and natural minerals destroys the ground that plants use for soil to grow and, in turn, limits the hospitability of an environment for animals to thrive. Many

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