State Sovereignty vs. Environmental Sustainability
With humanities growing knowledge of skills and technology, we have been able to
manipulate nature to meet the growing needs of humans. By doing this humans have
fished, gathered species, hunted for food, fuel, and shelter. Humans have domesticated
plants and animals, cut forests, used anything from fire to technological advancements to
alter habitats, and have significantly changes chemical hydrological and geochemical
cycles. As a result humans do not reflect what life on earth is, but changes to landscape
and sea reflect human culture. As species die, humans lose their food, medicines and
industrial resources and products that supply today for tomorrow. For humans to think
that they can be the last species standing and still survive is being ignorant of the facts .
This problem is of global concern and must be resolved with the cooperation of states,
NGO’s and the scientific community. Counties must realize that their sovereignty comes
second to the sustainable survival of not only the human race, but all of earth’s
encompassing life.
In the early 1400’s, human population began to grow substantially. The increase
in population added stress to earth’s resources and ecosystem which consistently increased
as humans developed new technologies. This period of technological enlightenment began
in the mid to late 1700’s with the industrial revolution, which was also the time when
humans moved out of self sustained villages and farms into complex interdependent cities.
Intensive industrialism started with the invention of the steam engine and ignited a mass
consumption of earth’s resources with developed countries consuming a majority of
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... be involved. Since the 1960’s and 70’s a large number of regimes,
institutions, agreements and policies for the governance of environmental politics have
been formed through the cooperation of hundreds of governments and international non
governmental organizations. The challenge for these regimes and non governmental
organizations is to promote the growth of sustainable living, preserving biological diversity
equally in plants and animals, repairing existing damage to the climate, and preventing
further damage in the future.
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During the 1700s the Industrial Revolution first began in Britain , but traveled throughout Europe and the United States into the 1900s. Many inventors invented items to make going through life during this time much easier, technology improved,their were many changes in society, and working conditions improved shortly after.
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Entering an era of mechanization and large scale production by the second half of the nineteenth century due to the expansion of railroads, mining, factories etc.
it is an important issue and must be dealt with. Many groups have tried to set up
several centuries. It began in Italy in the 14th century, and in the 15th century,
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The governments of each nation shall put their best efforts in finding the solutions and implementing them to cop with these social and cultural issues. This will decide the future of human kind and the whole planet as well.
part of the 16th century and continued to be used well into the 18th century.
Humans are members of the Earth's community of life in the same sense and on the same terms as other living things.
The small revision and modifications represent the microevolutionary changes and can lead to new species over time. The immense vast and varied diversity of life on Earth, from birds to butterflies, from apes to humans these baffled and bewildered Darwin. Each organism and species alluringly and appealingly acclimatized and habituated to the environment around the them. Prior to Darwin, humans, were not looked upon as a part if the World. Though, humans resembled primates, like chimpanzee and orangutan and had a lot of similarities with the primates, only few of the Naturalists, grouped humans as
species are but a few of the warnings the earth has given us. In this
in Russia in 1793 at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. By the early 19th
The earth is considered as one of the most beautiful planets in the universe. It is the only planet in our galaxy that has enough water to support life. Unfortunately our planet is suffering due to many problems which should be solved before it is too late. The major problems that are facing our world today are population, pollution and animal extinction.
The branch of science that deals with how living things, including humans, are related to their surroundings is called ecology . The Earth supports some 5 million species of plants, animals, and microorganisms. These interact and influence their surroundings, forming a vast network of interrelated environmental systems called ecosystems. The arctic tundra is an ecosystem and so is a Brazilian rain forest. The islands of Hawaii are a relatively isolated ecosystem. If left undisturbed, natural environmental systems tend to achieve balance or stability among the various species of plants and animals. Complex ecosystems are able to compensate for changes caused by weather or intrusions from migrating animals and are therefore usually said to be more stable than simple ecosystems. A field of corn has only one dominant species, the corn plant, and is a very simple ecosystem. It is easily destroyed by drought, insects, disease, or overuse. A forest may remain relatively unchanged by weather that would destroy a nearby field of corn, because the forest is characterized by greater diversity of plants and animals. Its complexity gives it stability.