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| When nature is merely considered as being a thing or object, what is its perceived value? |
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| The perception at this point would be very shallow and non-encompassing to the way we ought to be honoring the earth, i.e., in a profound way. |
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| What in Berry's estimation helps to activate a person powers of imagination? |
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| The movement of the natural world around us should, according to him, evoke our imagination. |
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| What to Thomas Berry is the tragedy of urban life? Give and example. |
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| Probably the most severe tragedy would be the extinction of hundreds of thousands of species of animals due to industrial exploitation. |
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| To Leopold, the rich diversity of human culture is a reflection of what? |
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| It's the reflection of what nature had instilled upon them at birth. |
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| Leopold saw the conservation movement as an affirmation of what ancient ethos? |
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| An evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity. |
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| Ethics, Leopold writes, rests upon what premise? |
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| That an individual is part of the community, and that community depends on one another. |
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| What had the public (as a generalization) come to assume about science? |
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| Science knows exactly how we, the community, works and by extension we would automatically know how to solve all future problems/crises, which at this point in time is not true. |
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| Geography is literally, in Latin, "to describe the earth." |
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| What does it mean to think critically? |
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| To question, analyze, and evaluate the normal paradigms. "To question the answers" |
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| What is holistic thinking? |
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| To perceive the entire scope of the situation and to realize that everything is interconnected. |
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| Why is holistic thinking like the tiles of a floor or pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? |
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| Rather than uselessly concentrating on a single floor tile or puzzle piece, holistic thinking takes all interconnected factors, or pieces, into account to escape narrow-minded fragmentation. |
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What is existential reasoning?
What are the big questions? |
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| It is the pondering of one's existence. Big questions include questions about truth, beauty, and life and death. |
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| What is a goal of applied geography? |
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| To help humanity develop an affinity, or bind, with the earth. |
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| What does the word affinity mean? |
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| A natural liking or sympathy for something. |
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| The ability to understand the feelings of another. |
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| What does the word race define? |
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| It defines slightly different members of the same species. |
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| Pigments in the skin that account for the color-alteration of said skin. |
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| What function does the ozone layer play on Earth? |
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| It absorbs and blocks most of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. |
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| Why do people display different skin tones? |
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| It is a biological adaptation to the respective surrounding environment. Naturally, these attributes are passed on from parent to offspring. |
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| What is skin bleaching a reaction to? |
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| It is a reaction to the concept of beauty, at least for that particular individual. The individual has the notion or belief that beauty is a lighter skin-tone, therefore the "reaction" to that notion is skin bleaching. |
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| Beauty is not being something in which you must force upon yourself. Meaning, you shouldn't sacrifice your uniqueness or comfortability for anything. To be yourself is all that you can do. |
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| You are a world renowned documentary maker from the United States. You have been hired by National Geographic to produce a one hour television special to be shown on their cable channel on Earth Day (April 22). What would be the theme of your special. Why? |
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| I would produce an hour-long documentary on dirt, to keep within the theme of Earth day, of course. The reason being people commonly refer to dirt, soil, and the ground, whether literally or idiomatically, with boredom and a lack of enthusiasm, and this is to be expected. I, however, would attempt to change that with my own documentary. |
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