...The carrying capacity of the planet that we live on has been a debated subject for some time now, ever since mankind became self-aware of the effects it has on earth by pollution and deforestations, people have wondered if Earth could keep existing if the human race continues with living this way and treating the planet like this. Another problem that has been brought up in the last century is overpopulation, there are simply too many people at certain places on the world for their area’s to live on. If we combine these two we get the grand question that this essay is about: “Does mother Earth have the carrying capacity to meet the needs of future population growth?”. I would like to say that the simple answer is no, as there is lots of evidence that our planet can not endure in keeping living conditions for humans optimal, with global warming and pollution damaging the ecosystem. for example: human machines and electrical devices release Cholorofluorocarbons which damage the ozone gases in the ozone layer which protects the humans and other beings from harmful ultraviolet rays. If the ozone layer gets depleted fully the human race will...
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...The television (TV) is part and parcel of many households. Therefore, watching television is a culture of today’s modern society. It is a favourite past-time of many people, cutting across the culture, creed, gender and age. I must admit that I too enjoy “sitting glued” to the TV as mum often laments. Since I watch TV whole day long, I don’t blame mum. However, whenever I watch my favourite TV programme she doesn’t complain. In fact, she often sits together to watch it, the ‘National Geographic’. The National Geographic is a well-known documentary programme, focusing mainly on the ever-changing world, on Mother Earth and on nature and peoples and creatures that colour it with. Just the press of a switch and a button and ‘Hey Presto!’, the whole world is brought before me, for me to savour its beauty and wonders. Personally, I am often awed and amazed with them. I like this programme because it is very educational. It is a ‘window to the world’. By watching it, I can ‘travel’, ‘explore’ and ‘discover’ the four corners of the world. I have trekked up the highest peak and conquered Mt. Everest. I have dived down the deepest trenches. I have walked through the wilderness and be amongst the wild beasts, big and small. Thus, this programme has helped to expand my horizon and improve my knowledge and experience. I can proudly say I am no more a ‘frog in the well’. I also enjoy watching the National Geographic because it is entertaining, interesting and stimulating. I never imagined...
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...MY FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMME The television (TV) is part and parcel of many households. Therefore, watching television is a culture of today’s modern society. It is a favourite past-time of many people, cutting across the culture, creed, gender and age. I must admit that I too enjoy “sitting glued” to the TV as mum often laments. Since I watch TV whole day long, I don’t blame mum. However, whenever I watch my favourite TV programme she doesn’t complain. In fact, she often sits together to watch it, the ‘National Geographic’. The National Geographic is a well-known documentary programme, focusing mainly on the ever-changing world, on Mother Earth and on nature and peoples and creatures that colour it with. Just the press of a switch and a button and ‘Hey Presto!’, the whole world is brought before me, for me to savour its beauty and wonders. Personally, I am often awed and amazed with them. I like this programme because it is very educational. It is a ‘window to the world’. By watching it, I can ‘travel’, ‘explore’ and ‘discover’ the four corners of the world. I have trekked up the highest peak and conquered Mt. Everest. I have dived down the deepest trenches. I have walked through the wilderness and be amongst the wild beasts, big and small. Thus, this programme has helped to expand my horizon and improve my knowledge and experience. I can proudly say I am no more a ‘frog in the well’. I also enjoy watching the National Geographic because it is entertaining...
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...20th century on wards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. There are two main causes of climate change. The first one is Natural Cause. Volcanic eruption is one of the examples. When a volcano erupts, it release big amounts of sulfur dioxide and dust particles in the air, will then travel to the atmosphere and will block the incoming sun rays and will lead to cooling of the atmosphere of the earth. Another example is the ocean current. It happens when the winds push horizontally against the sea surface and drive ocean current patterns, as well the movement of carbon dioxide affects. Moreover, another cause is the earth`s orbital changes. It happens due of tilting of the earth that affects the severity of the seasons. Second is Human Activity. Natural Resources are being used extensively for constructions of industries, transport and other establishment that causes greenhouse gas to rise which results to the warming of the earth surface. And the effects of climate change the first one is our human health. High level of ozone in our surface is causing a different respiratory problem which affect mostly infants and also the elderly. The destruction of Biodiversity is also one of the effects of climate change. We conclude that as we can see nowadays, climate change has been seriously affects our...
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...and twentieth centuries , (that date back as far as the third millenium B.C.) Sumerologists, such as Samuel Noah Kramer, have deciphered the oldest cosmogonic concepts ever found . Kramer explains that because the Sumerians lacked "scientific methods of definition and generalization " to make sense of the origins and the working of the universe they attempted to provide explanation through the use of poetry, epic tales and hymns . The only scientific information they had access to was what could be seen around them, that being Earth, Air, Heaven and Water , and according to the Ancient Sumerians it was through these essential elements that the universe came to be and it begins with Nammu, the primeval sea. From the primeval sea was born An (Heaven) and Ki (Earth), a singular mass in the form of a mountain. From the union of An And Ki came Enlil (Air) which in turn separated Heaven from Earth, An carried off heaven and Enlil carried away his mother Ki. Through the union of Ki and Enlil and subsequent couplings of gods begotten by them, came the luminaries and the organisation of the universe . The Book of Genesis was...
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...Arthus-Bertrand is a beautifully shot panorama of the Earth and the damage done to it by modern humanity. It includes a moving narration about the evolution of the Earth, nature, agriculture, humans, and the crises of habitat destruction, energy depletion, climate disruption, degradation...of the environment, health, economic disparity, and more. The movie starts by taking the viewer back to the beginning of time, and explains how and when life on Earth came about. We learn, for example, that the world is four billion years old, whereas humans are only 200,000 years old. In the relatively short time we have been around, however, we have had more impact than any other species. In the last 50 years alone, the movie says, the Earth has been more radically changed than by all previous generations of humanity. The movie narrates how our mother earth evolved, how the beautiful trenches were molded, the placid and bluish color of the sea, the formation of rocks, mountains, and other magnificent sceneries were being shown and narrated. The film also shows the ecological cycle of life. The biological evolution of plants where many kinds of plants were growing and cultivating around the world and the evolution of human and animal lives that we never thought would be the one who will destroy the beautiful picturesque of our mother earth. From time to time, in the film, the narrator demonstrates and explains the structure of our earth 200 billion years ago. One thing that I observed in...
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...Global Warming: A raging problem that can make the world inhabitable. In my past few years, whenever I hear people mention of global warming, all that is in my knowledge is the flooding of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere which makes the earth slowly hotter every time. It wasn’t a big deal for me at all but, in the past few months, I got to be more aware of the matter, as global warming is paving its path towards a major problem for humanity. I can now hear people talking about it, and I can read in the articles at the internet on how to combat global warming. Now, I can say that global warming is spoken about as much and we are very much aware of its problem. Unfortunately, we are not helping to fight against it. The documentary by Al Gore entitled, “An Inconcenient Truth”, speaks of how greatly affected the world climate has been since the introduction of the industrial age. The high temperatures recorded are proportional to the carbon dioxide composition in the air which suggests that carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming. It is also stated that if this kind of pattern will go for another few decades, we will experience a temperature increase several times hotter than the medieval period. It’s very discouraging to know that not everyone is doing their best to battle against global warming. The most depressing part of the documentary was when he said that the melting glaciers would give a 20 foot increase in the water level which will result to submerged...
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...Bonus Assignment 1 Document 1-2 On the Origin of Death from Sources of World Societies. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Print. 1. Sa (Death) and Alatangana (God) had a relationship based on friendship. It was also a relationship based on what Sa could help Alatangana with in order to bring light into the world(p.6). When this is given to God along with Sa’s daughter, Sa expects something in return so it is also a relationship of give and take. Sa existed before Alatangana and it seemed he depended very much of the help of Sa in order to create the life that was brought forth with his help. 2. The Kono people explain death as a price that is paid in return for Alatangana taking Sa’s daughter without his permission or even giving a dowry(p.6). In return Sa can call on God’s children whenever he chooses by the use of his calabash in a dream (p.8). A life is the price paid by Alatangana for all that Sa has given to Alatangana. 3.Sa brought light into the world by telling the rooster to call east to awaken the Star King. It is a story of bringing life and death to the world by the Kono people of western Aftica. Document 1-5 Double Burial from Mantua, Italy from Sources of World Societies. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. The individuals were buried in an intimate fashion to show in death their relationship in life. The two appear to be embraced with arms crossed and together to suggest they were young lovers(p. 12). They may have died of an untimely death. 5. Individuals were buried with objects...
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...movie “WALL-E” expresses the urgent need for recycling and self preservation. As a society we have lost preservation on the focus of mother earth. Our landfills are filled to an abundance and overflow of human waste that will never breakdown in our lifetime or our grandchildren’s lifetime. During our present society we have predicted an epidemic of obesity directly resulting in the need for instant gratification due to the internet. WALL-E (whose name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a cute, squat robot with droopy binocular eyes who is a roving trash compactor and, in fact, the last of this breed exposes the dangers to our society and mother earth in both of these instances. As depicted in WALL-E our societies wasteful nature created the earth as a waste dump. Once there was no more room on mother earth for the humans to cohabitate with the waste, the humans were forced to result to living on space ships. WALL-E was created in attempt to compact the waste for possible re-habitation of earth. In the process WALL-E not only discovers a long forgotten life form “the flower” he also discovers the long forgotten love and companionship of “EVE” (whose name stands for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) who is a frictionless white pod with cathode-ray eyes who has been sent to earth to search for organic life. Although these two do not talk exactly, they hold hands and burble each other’s names. It is love at first...
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...2016 Creation Myths * I have chosen the “Greek Creation Myth,” and the “Mayan Creation Myth.” * In the “Mayan Creation Myth,” the heavens and the earth are both represented. The elements of earth are: day, moon and stars, mountains and hills, streams and rivers, animals, and human beings. The heavens are represented by Veracocha’s retreat to Lake Titcaca, from which he emerges in the beginning of the myth. It also describes a sea world as the god and his companions retreat to the coast of the sea, in the end of the myth, never to be seen again (Rosenberg p. 599) In the “Greek Creation myth,” earth, the sky world, and underworld are all represented. The earth is made from the earth Goddess, Gaia. The sky, and its starry mantle are Uranus, Gaia’s husband. The underworld is a place that contains the deepest, darkest depths of the earth, but also the “Blessed Isles,” a beautiful place where the heroes go when they die (University of Phoenix, 2015). * The creator in the Mayan creation myth is Lord Con Ticci Viracocha, “prince of the heavens and the earth” (Rosenburg p.599). Viracocha created the heavens and the earth first. Then, he created the animals and a race of “gigantic human beings” (Rosenburg p.571). He was displeased with the behaviors of the animals and humans, turned them into stone, and flooded the earth killing all of its inhabitants. He began again by creating day, moving on to creating the moon and stars, hills and moutains, streams and rivers (Rosenburg...
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...Sto. Domingo, Justin Philip G. Ms. Melanie Marfal 1M3 7th of September, 2012 “Si Sibol at si Gunaw” In line with the different and diverse environmental advocacies, campaigns and programs, Ballet Manila, one of the most prestigious and outstanding performers, became one with the environment as they showcase their pure talents and skills in the play entitled “Si Sibol at si Gunaw”. Obviously, the show portrays environmental theme and awareness. For me, environment connotes being one with nature meaning caring and nurturing it but biologically speaking, environment is a set of ecosystems which is comprised of biotic (living) abiotic (non-living) macro organisms (large) microorganisms (small) interacting together for survival’s purpose. Starting from the Industrial Revolution up to the 20th century and right now, we cannot deny the fact that man has reached the apex of the world, that man innovates and is still innovating through the use and aid of technology to catalyze efficiency, effectiveness, and accuracy. But upon reaching the pinnacle, we hardly forgot what is sacrificed? Nature is sacrificed, our world is at risk and we also are at risk.There is a song that says “Di naman masama ang umunlad basta’t alagaan lang natin ang ating kapaligiran” the message is something like that. That’s when environmental advocacies began to sprout. And one of these campaigns is the Ballet Manila’s: Si Sibol at si Gunaw”. The show from the...
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...I have arrived to planet which is called earth. In this earth I see many people believe in different type of religious and religious is “A particular response to dimensions of life considers sacred, as shaped by institutionalized traditions” (Fisher, 2011). As I have come to earth I see much different type of peoples and they are worship with different type of gods. I see there are more than one religious in the earth. There are people which they find mysteries and understand the different concept for the universe in this earth. As in this earth people tech there family important of the religious and how it was created in the earth and also explain to their newer generation about religious and important in believing god. According to my opinion is religion is a most important in my life, because I would like to follow my religion and culture that is going on since long and long time ago. Also, Hinduism is great religion that teaches people how to live their life with peacefully. In Hinduism God comes first in all occasion and festival that brings a lot of joy in our life. For example, of behaviors in my religion is that Hindu people are not going against their culture and society; however because of their religion they are not allowed to eat certain type of food and drinks. Based on my religion people are not allowed to eat any kind of live animal or any caffeine, some people are not allowed to eat onion and garlic in their food they have to avoid tea and coffee in morning...
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...he talks about how no matter what you think should happen nature will continue doing things in its own way. In the chapters“Cooling the Lava” and “Los Angeles against the Mountains” the situations and catastrophes that have caused harm to these places demonstrate that Mother Nature has its own way of life and people cannot simply stop what is happening. With McPhee telling his readers that people who try to change or stop nature need to realize that this attempt is futile, because humans cannot control nature. They cannot stop the volcanoes from erupting lava or can we stop the boulders from falling down the mountain. In the book/monograph/treatise, in the chapter “Cooling the Lava” Thorbjorn, who is a native from Iceland has this idea that he will stop the lava from flooding by cooling. With his logic of cooling the lava, the water would reduce the heat in order to create a wall of cooled lava that would dam the flow. “The lava should be cooled not so much by the edge as by the acre, and that called not only for more pumps but also for the development of material and personnel up on top of the advancing flow”(McPhee 98). With this being said, it should be obvious that humans cannot be the ones to stop Mother Nature. The destruction the lava has made is a big mess we face. It is destroying the homes of many people, but that is only affecting the people who live there. It is hard having people who want to fix it when their is a lack of money and also a lack of people who care...
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...PROTECTING NATURE Nature is God’s greatest boon to mankind. Nature is the mother of all creations on our earth. The air that we breath, the water that we drink, the food that we consume, the furniture that we use, etc. are all gifted by Mother Nature. If not for nature life on earth would have been unimaginable. The bright sunshine, the beautiful mountains, the showers of rain, the tamed and wild animals, the gems and the jewels, the paper on which we write all are the presents of Nature. We as humans owe our very existence to Mother Nature but seem to disregard this inimitable fact and do not pay any respect to her instead we indulge in polluting and destroying our environment. Today, people uproot & trees for furniture but forget to plant a new sapling in its place. The tragedy of modern day existence is people are enjoying luxury items such as cars, air-conditioners refrigerators, etc. failing to realize that they are polluting the ecological balance of our earth. Today’s generation seems to have no moral responsibility towards nature. The ecologists, scientists and environment activists all over the world have realized the need for protecting nature and its natural resources. The major problems that our earth is struggling are with pollution, population, depletion of mineral resources, global warming, extinction of various species of animals and cutting down of forests. Our beautiful earth is turning into a defaced, ugly surface of land. The rise in population...
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...There are many different explanations regarding the creation of the Earth. Various cultures and religions all have their own explanations that were passed down through generations that specifically explain the development of Earth. The Modoc Tribe tells their story about the creation of Earth through “When Grizzlies Walked Upright.” The Christian religion explains its version of Earth’s creation through the first two chapters in Genesis in the Bible. Both of these stories have a spiritual head figure, punishments for acting out and an above world, however their differences include a difference in the order of the creation and humans in each story. In “When the Grizzlies Walked Upright” and in the first two chapters of Genesis, each story...
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