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    invented * Industrialisation hand in hand with urbanisation * If you don’t industrialise your left behind * To improve power‚ influence and living standards. You need: technological advances and the degree of its commitment to modernisation * A major catalyst for challenge and change to the old political‚ social‚ economic and cultural order of the 20th century. Because: encouraged urbanisation- the move from country to town * Urbanisation * Spread of disease became a major problem

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    out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation. The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometres are cut down. So that’s 18‚900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil‚ in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large sum of money from MEDCs to develop their country they now owe these MEDCs

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    kajian ini serta bagi pihak yang terlibat ribuan terima kasih diucapkan. Tanpa mereka semua adalah mustahil bagi saya untuk menyiapkan tugasan ini. Human Activities that Endangered an Ecosystem DEFORESTATION * Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees from the forests. EFFECT OF DEFORESTATION * Tropical rainforests are the oldest ecosystem on Earth and believed to be home to about half of the world’s flora and fauna species. * Rainforests play an important role in regulating

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    demands are bound to grow.Industrialized countries‚ with higher living standards and greater numbers of cars‚ produce far more air pollution and greenhouse gases than developing countries. Developed countries also contribute to overfishing and deforestation . But these countries can reduce serious environmental hazards by using technology such as smokestack scrubbers‚ emission systems‚ and waste-water treatment plants. Although developing countries consume a far smaller percentage of the world’s resources

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    The Mazengarb report was a product of its time – produced in response to a moral panic‚ where youth delinquency‚ sexual experimentation‚ newfound international influence and a shift in the family and social dynamics were creating instability and insecurity in society; the Mazengarb report was a poorly handled government investigation which fuelled the social panic in a time referred to as “The golden years”. The report itself had very immediate consequences‚ with new legislation being rushed through

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    The actual knowledge would not be sufficient to generalize the effect of population growth in developing areas‚ at least that is what some researchers believe. They agree that rapid growth in today’s less developed countries have favorable effects such as economies of scale and specialization‚ better capacities‚ and motivations of younger people compared with older ones. However‚ rapid population growth creates high pressures on elemental resources that compromises our actual model of development

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    gained much love and respect from the people as she set forth to put an end to environmental degradation. Forest’s need to used more sustainably‚ which we will talk about‚also we touch upon how the Governments and individuals can reduce tropical deforestation. Whether its the government with the higher anarchy‚ who usually has the final say or the individuals who live day to day‚ we all have a place in the sustainability of the environment and Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement brought everyone

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    Language 20 John Angelo Luis Adra Hidrosollo September 12 ‚ 2014 Grade 7 – C Miss Imee Masilungan The Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is the thermal radiation from the planetary surface absorbed by the atmospheric gases. It is radiated in all direction. It is also the trapping of heat near the earth’s surface. Without the greenhouse effect the earth would be much colder at around 33 degrees Celsius . All bodies of water on earth would be frozen. The greenhouse effect

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    Powerful environment movement . STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement‚ 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources “In the wake of reckless deforestation‚ a unique movement has bubbled‚”observed India Today in March 1982. The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources.“ Chipko movement in the Garhwal Himalayas‚ shoved aside urban armchair

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    Indonesia- not a Building Block for Globalization The world is getting smaller‚ just as a California poppy grows smaller as it closes in on itself every night. The flower grows closer together by drawing its petals inward so that they become much closer to the rest of the petals. The poppy does this to protect its pollen. The world is getting smaller and growing closer together due to globalization. Globalization is the rising of the global economy. As more and more markets trade with each other

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