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    a careful preservation and protection of something. We need to conserve natural resources. Teddy Roosevelt has a whole speech about conservation of natural resources. In his speech he has 3 things he talks about. They are the progress of conservation, connections of patriotism, and the morality of the American people. The progress of conservation was very slow. The people did not know that they were hurting the environment. They soon found out when President Teddy Roosevelt made an announcement

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    While energy efficiency helps save money at home, it also helps businesses, cities, state, and the federal government save on a much larger scale. Overall, energy efficiency is saving the American government, its citizens, and businesses more than $500 billion a year in energy costs. Efficiency saving money, energy efficiency projects like building improvements and infrastructure repairs create jobs. According to http://www.ase.org/resources/top-5-reasons-be-energy-efficient, “In 2010 alone, energy

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    While energy efficiency helps you save money while at home, it also helps businesses, cities, state, and federal governments save on a much bigger scale. Saving billions: Overall, energy efficiency is saving the American government, its citizens, and businesses more than $500 billion a year in avoided energy costs. Creating jobs: In addition to saving money, energy efficiency projects (like building improvements and infrastructure repairs) create jobs. In 2010 alone, energy efficiency accounted

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    economic growth of America’s economy. From the natural beauty and culture of Costal Southern New England’s beaches and towns it has made this a popular place of travel filled with rich history that defines this region. As tourism congregated into a large activity that occurs today, over time, it has created environmental, social, and economic impacts. These types of impacts occur when tourists’ level of usage of local resources is greater than the environments ability to cope with this use within the acceptable

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    The "natural disaster" of 1993 was made worse by human activities so biologists describe. The biologists were right because by interfering in the natural flow of water we caused a massive flood to happen. Then on top of it all people who lost their farms decided to build right back in the same spot knowing that at any moment the

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    into a sustainable one. The NDP can create jobs by “Establishing “Buy Canadian” procurement policies and fostering Canadian ownership and control of our major sectors.”and “Developing “Made in Canada” products through secondary processing of our natural resources, thereby creating skilled, value-added jobs” (p. 2) The NDP approves of a progressive and fair tax system, meaning they believe profitable corporations should pay a fair share of taxes. Tax reductions should benefit the middle class, working

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    controlling the climatic conditions of the zone. Moreover, two rivers are used to provide hydroelectric power to the Bale area. However, population pressure and lack of clear ownership of the resources have encouraged people to overexploit their natural resources (Kidan 1996).

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    We cry “THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!” every time there is a natural calamity. This is because humans are keen to underestimate Earth’s ability to protect itself and see it as their duty to save the world by being more environment-friendly. This anthropocentric view that we are the center of this planet makes us forget that Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old while modern humans showed up only 200,000 years ago. In the poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” Sara Teasdale uses imagery and personification

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    Motive: The reason of development is to make human life better. 2. Basis of will: Find a balance between the sustainable economic growth and environment protection. 3. Reasoned imperatives (commands/principles): When a country is in a period of rapid industrialization, there is a large gap between economic growth and resource consumption. The solution is always find a balance point in order to

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    Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness” Norton 533 William Cronon’s work on environmental philosophy The Trouble with Wilderness is most perceptive work ever produced. It has thoughtful impacts for everyone who revolves around the discussion of the environment. The Cronon argues that individuals have to change the way of our thinking about wilderness. Cronon’s article Getting back to wrong nature or the trouble with wilderness describes that the wilderness, as individuals see, has no direct relativity

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