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Earth

Conservation

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land,” [1]


                                                                 The logging of the Pacific Coastal ranges, Oregon.

Mapping our impacts & Writing about the ecological footprint

Water | Energy | Air | Land = landscape or WEAL

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climate

Writing about conservation given the reality in a polarized society.

Ways to start an essay on conservation
  A B C
Authors

Crosby

 

Jefferson

                               Egan, p. 23

Emerson

 

  on agriculture on land policy on property
message Heaven on Earth Stewardship & equality "charming landscape"
    Public domain  
details Population growth Farms ownership
Impacts   Homestead Act  
  pressure for land   "property in the horizon"
visions  
Marsh, Powell, & McGee
 
  Real estate ownership   "integrity of . . . manifold natural objects."
    land realism  
       
idea   Conservation  
 
"to keep from loss harm or decay"
impacts soil erosion   water pollution
    development  
Reforms      
Second wave
  Hugh Hammond Bennett  
  Harold Ickes   Aldo Leopold
       
  Resettlement Administration Fish and Wildlife Service

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The Worst Hard Time

Comparative Maps of the United States

US population

Counties in the USA; the greater the number of food stamp recipients in the region, the darker the color blue on the map.

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Subsidies

Farm subsidies per state and region (national money spent in states.)

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spending

Educational spending per person in different counties of the USA, 2005

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Congressional apportionment

US population

The nation has become less representative since 1903.

One Congress-person

1853 one for every 100,000 residents

1903 one for every 200,000 residents

1973 one for every 500,000 residents

1993 one for every 600,000 residents

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Media

Editor & Publisher recently reported on a new poll of Americans' attitudes toward the news media:

A new Gallup poll released on Friday, October 19, 2007, show[s] a wide gap between how Republicans and Democrats view the mass media. Nearly 3 in 4 Republicans say the media is "too liberal."

What constitutes several layers of media for the masses?

Media pyramid

The media today has been splintered into multimedia sources of "electronically mediated" tools by which we communicate.

[Gallup Poll director Frank] Newport explains:

"Republicans in America today remain deeply distrustful of the national news media -- in sharp contrast to Democrats, who have a great deal more trust in the media's accuracy."

global warmingOpinions on global warming

Exactly twice as many Democrats (66%) express some faith in the media compared with Republicans (33%).

More than twice as many Americans say the news media are too liberal (45%) rather than too conservative (18%).

But Newport adds: "Americans' views of the bias in news media are highly related – as would be expected -- to underlying political orientation."

Some 22% of Democrats find the media "too conservative," but this is a much lower number than the Republican assertion [that the media are too liberal] (77%).

 

Between the media's treatment of Gore and their handling of the run-up to the Iraq war, how can Democrats have so much faith in the media and Republicans so little?

There are probably a large number of factors that play a role, but two seem obvious: The American people are rarely told about the media's peddling of conservative misinformation, and they are frequently told that the media are "liberal."

 

book The ecological footprint of humans on the Earth.

Water | Energy | Air | Land = landscape or WEAL

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water Water use

water

There is no electricity or gas without water and no water without electricity.

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oil Energy use

Map

Efficiency of energy use is improving, because it has to as prices rise and air is polluted.

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air Air; atmosphere

Air pollution: the real litmus test of the national commitment to conservation

pollution

What does this logarithmic pH scale mean

acid rain

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grid Land

floodland

Flood maximum on the Sacramento River, 2002-2003, El Nino. The ideal survey system collided with terrain's realities.

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Water | Energy | Air | Land = landscape or WEAL

 

treesgrid

Mercury contamination

On the value of communications.

The Communication's Revolution.

Doctors Without Borders

The National Wildlife Federation.

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Additional material

[1]
"convert our collective knowledge of biotic materials into a collective wisdom of biotic navigation."
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the earth."
Aldo Leopold. A Sand County Almanac. "The Round River," p. 189.
Aldo Leopold "The Land Ethic: A Timeless Challenge." Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, 2015.
"The Leopold Center uses 70 percent less energy than a typical building of its size , demonstrating that we can meet tomorrow's energy conservation goals".
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This page was created, by J. Siry.

October 26, 2015 .

 

 

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