The public health and environmental movements are sometimes at odds with each other. Why is this the case? What might be done to improve the situation?
What will be an ideal response?
Often the environment is seen as the enemy of public health. More access to
electricity and less manual work are common tokens of the health movement. Concerns
for public health, for eliminating hunger, and for human comfort have often promoted
transformations of the environment, on behalf of our bodies, that run afoul of at least
some conceptions of sustainability and the beauty of ecology, and even those of
environmental justice.
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Marine west coast climates are dominated by what air masses?
A) maritime tropical (mT) B) continental Arctic (cA) C) continental polar (cP) D) maritime polar (mP) E) continental tropical (cT)
________ is an unusual mixture of ice and methane.
A. Gas hydrate B. Pumice C. Distillate D. Condensate E. Oil sand
Explain why calm weather typically exists in the eye of a hurricane.
What will be an ideal response?
Ramona, the Harry Potter books, and the Lord of the Rings films exemplify how
A) art shapes place. B) gender is socially constructed. C) cultural systems are formed. D) race is normalized. E) non-representational theory unfolds.