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"Everything is hitched to everything else."

John Muir, 1890s.

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Transboundary problems:

Does density trigger other, related environmental problems?

Select a province compare it to a denser region and list the environmental problems that are there and the causes of those problems:

Global environmental issues in geopolitical contexts.

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Terms

analytical: a restrained use of taking apart arguments to discover the verity of positions

worldview: seeing the parts of the whole and thus the proportionality of reasons

geopolitical view: seeing the geopolitics or the territorial setting and geographical way that tensions create divisions among neighboring states and regions, nation states and empires.

realpolitique: understanding the actual underlying matters that are not revealed in diplomatic rhetoric and thus seeing the causes of conflict and opportunities for negotiated settlements of disputes among sovereign powers.

dogmatic view: the inability to see beyond the slogans, narrow concerns or confining ideologies that may often separate conflicting powers either within or between states and powerful factions within imperial nations and their dependent states.

Focusing your message and check points to better disciplining your message.

 

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