trade passes through the South China Sea each year‚ $1.2 trillion of which passes through U.S. ports. Below the South China Sea is an estimated $3 trillion worth of oil‚ gas and minerals. Fisheries in the South China Sea have been decimated by overfishing and polluting chemicals from shrimp farms and factories. By some estimates there is enough oil under the South China Sea to last China for 60 years. The Spratly Islands are a group of tiny islands‚ reefs‚ shoals and rocks in the South China Sea
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Image Source: Book Today‚ 2013 Discovering the world’s largest coral reef system Nicholas Buss – s2797651 1303ENV – Earth Sciences Course Convenor – James Furse Course Tutor – Dr William Bennett Introduction Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of planet earth and is the only living system large enough to be seen from space and even the moon (Bowen‚ 2002). The reef currently attracts more than 1.6 million tourists to Queensland’s north-east
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DQ1 Wk 1 Define the following environmental schools of ethics — anthropocentric‚ biocentric‚ and deep ecology (also referred to as ecocentric) Anthropocentric - originates from the Greek word "anthropos" which means man in and the latin word "centralis" which means center. So simply Anthropocentric‚ is man center. So in theology the doctrine of anthropocentrism is simply that man is the center of all things and that man is not in need of God or higher power‚ and that man is capable of understanding
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Animal rights are essential because in many ways they are just like humans‚ they are proven to have emotions and have families just like us‚ therefore it is unethical to abuse the animals in ways that we know is not right to do for humans. Due to animals having limited to no rights‚ it’s our duty to make a change and make people and schools aware of animal cruelty. Citizens of the United States have the ability of Freedom of speech‚ religion‚ press‚ assembly‚ and petition. With that kind of power
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Global Business Case Study – ALDI Executive Summary This report will discuss the nature of ALDI‚ investigate the classification of ALDI‚ outline the responsibilities ALDI has to its stakeholders and explore the internal and external influences that have contributed to ALDI achieving business success within Australia. It will also evaluate the expansion of ALDI into Australia and give a recommendation of strategies that would be appropriate for ALDI to ensure future growth. The nature of ALDI’s
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belongs in the blank. Scientists study changes in air pressure and wind movements to help ________ what the weather will be in the future. A capture B handle C predict D revise Read the paragraphs below and answer the questions that follow. The Overfishing of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (1) Atlantic bluefin tuna are warm-blooded fish that inhabit the waters of the North Atlantic and its adjacent seas. (2) These fish are fast and powerful swimmers that weigh 250 kilograms on average and grow up to two meters
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The UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 defined biodiversity as being the variability between all living organisms‚ terrestrial‚ marine and aquatic. This includes the diversity within species‚ between species and of ecosystems. A reasonable standard of living does not mean that a person should live at a luxury level‚ but neither does it mean that a person should only live at a subsistence level. It should be somewhere in between where the person can afford to eat nutritious food‚ buy clothes
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Aftermath: Population Zero Imagine if one minute from now‚ every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. What would happen to the world without humans? How long would it be before our nuclear power plants erupted‚ skyscrapers crumbled and satellites dropped from the sky? What would become of the household pets and farm animals? And could an ecosystem plagued with years of pollution ever recover? Similar to the History Channel’s special Life After
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find out what our world looked like in the past and how can we reshape it in the coming future. It is most commonly used by marine biologists who examine and observe the changes taking place under the oceans. The industrial pollution‚ human waste‚ overfishing and the environmental degradation are causing destructive changes to our oceans as there is evidence for disappearance of certain fish species like flatfish‚ black sea bass and also a huge reduction in the remaining ones. The dead coral reefs of
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Cyber-VCT Program The 2010 UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic states that based on the 2009 data‚ 33.3 million people are living with HIV worldwide and Sub-Saharan Africa makes up 68% of the global total with 22.5 million people living with HIV.1 In an effort to address this epidemic‚ voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) programs have been implemented in many of rural and remote areas. VCT serves as the gateway to HIV prevention‚ treatment‚ care and support by allowing people to
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