The Earth's properties imagined as a concept map

1. sustainable,
2. wealth,
3. “wealth gap”,
4. source,
5. pollutant,
6. problem, worldview.
7. dialectic,
8. problem,
9. resource pollutant,
10. sustainable,
    
11. world, worldview,
    
12. habitat,
    
13. biocommunity,
    
14. technology gap,
15. earth wisdom.

     



A web visually conveys the meaning of ecological integrity.

Concept Map

problem			resource pollutant		weal	earth wisdom
		habitat			“wealth gap”
problem is our worldview	dialectic		pollutant	technology gap		planet
		biocommunity			wealth
world			source			sustainable

Clear cutting of a forest in Washington state along the Columbia River will make flooding more likely.

The use of the forest as a timber resource can add to stream pollution due to silt that accelerates the loss of oxygen in the stream because silt makes the river muddy and excessive run off that flushes more nutrients into the river at times of rain, or extreme weather events.

The effects of clear cutting a forest in Washington State's Columbia River watershed.

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