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Match the environmental perspectives with those who proposed them. -her 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides in the environment helped launch the U.S.environmental movement

A) Neil Smith and Margaret Fitzsimmons
B) Rachel Carson
C) George Perkins Marsh
D) Henry David Thoreau
E) Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt

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Which of the following energy resources produces the fewest noxious chemicals when burned?

A) natural gas
B) hard coal
C) heating oil
D) petroleum
E) brown coal

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-Ottawa is the capital of the country labeled with which number?

Match the activity or phenomenon with the group of countries in which is most likely to be found. -high CO₂ emissions

Explain the animistic perspective on nature and present an example drawn from Canadian First Nations people.

-The capital of country #17 is

The environmental justice movement emphasizes the disproportional burdens that the ________ face(s) from the negative consequences of economic development.

Radical environmental groups,like the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,that believe that the environment is sacred and should not be exploited are

The goal of the Kyoto Protocol is to limit logging and reduce worldwide deforestation.

The growth of the world's nuclear power production is primarily in the semiperiphery.

Using two specific examples,discuss how disease led to the depopulation of Spain's colonies in the New World.

First define the terms "nature," "society," and "technology." Then discuss the significance of the equation I= PAT,with special attention to the analysis of the three variables.

Some countries limit or reduce the overall amount of pollution by letting companies negotiate,buy,sell,and trade the "right" to pollute among themselves.Such a system is based on

Which of the following groups would probably be most fundamentally concerned about international agricultural land grabbing?

The critical environmental problem from dams is due to impacts from

Members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Greenpeace are more likely to hold a preservationist view than a conservationist view.

Match each environmental philosophy with the idea that describes it. -ecofeminism

According to Imort,the high number of deaths in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina (2005) was primarily the result of

Research and discuss the environmental philosophy that provincial and federal parks across Canada operate under.

The United States and Canada banned the use of DDT in 1972 and 1974,respectively.