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Part 1 - Glossary
=Part 2 - Headlines=
 * Term || Definition  ||
 * Influential Individual || A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events  ||
 * Independent pressure Groups || A group, organized or unorganized, that actively seeks to promote its particular interests within a society by exerting pressure on public officials and agencies. Pressure groups direct their efforts toward influencing legislative and executive branches of government, political parties, and sometimes general public opinion.  ||
 * Corporate Businesses || "In a corporate business, many people have invested money into stocks within the company and hope to make a return of funds from their investments."  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Government || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The governing body of a nation, state, or community.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">United Nations || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Neolithic || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Of, relating to, or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone implements prevailed.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Agricultural Revolution || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Industrial Revolution || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The rapid development of industry in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Conservationist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A person who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Green Revolution || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Environmentalist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Modern Environmental Movement || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Preservationist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A supporter or advocate of the preservation of something, esp. of historic buildings and artifacts.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Stewardship || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">CHAPTER 2 ||   ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Ecocentric || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A term in ecological political philosophy used to denote a nature-centred, as opposed to human-centred, system of values.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Anthropocentric || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Technocentric || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Denotes a value system that is centred on technology and its ability to affect, control and protect the environment  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Cornucopian || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A futurist who believes that continued progress and provision of material items for mankind can be met by similarly continued advances in technology  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Environmental Management || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Biocentric || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">An ethical point of view which extends inherent value to non-human species, ecosystems, and processes in nature - regardless of their sentience  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Self Reliant || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Reliance on one's own capabilities, judgment, or resources; independence.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Deep Ecologist || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">A contemporary ecological philosophy that recognizes the inherent worth of other beings aside from their utility.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Bio - Rights || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Nature and the environment have the right to stay untouched and humans do not have the right to change that.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Nurturing || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Care for and encourage the growth or development of.  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Intervening || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Manipulative || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX83517925" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Characterized by unscrupulous control of a situation or person  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #366092; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 17px;">Good News || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #366092; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 17px;">Bad News  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">'Biosphere' concept for Taupo (NZ) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Italy risks worst environmental disaster in 20 years  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">New laws for taking endangered species on and off Island‎ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Call to monitor Japanese whaling  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Environment to take centre stage in 2012‎ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Shark's fin trader defends the industry as legal  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Australia Day is a time to celebrate on the north shore‎ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Pollution threatens Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin‎  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Trawlers ask to be bought out to save the environment‎ || <span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="background-color: window; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">Enormous solar outburst could dazzle your weekend‎  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Cruise disaster: experts prepare to prevent oil spill by pumping fuel out of tanks || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Threat of toxic playgrounds‎  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Rare bird find in WA's north boosts hope‎ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Holy Endangered Species, Batman! Little Brown Bats Nearly Extinct!  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Ozzi Kleen sewage treatment systems for environment-friendly wastewater recycling || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Environmental damage for Edith River still unknown after derailment‎  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Deep down under the ground, a green idea grows‎ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Shifting wreck raises fears of disastrous oil spill‎  ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Chinese New Year causes shark fin feeding frenzy‎ ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">53 dead fur seals wash up on Australian beach‎ ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Spill threatens endangered wildlife on island‎ ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX243554792" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">It's not easy being green‎ ||

=Article - Contrasting Perspectives=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;">[]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Within this article about the Costa Concordia cruise disaster and the danger of an oil spill, a few people give their opinions. Each of these people have contrasting perspectives on the situation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Luigi Alcaro, the chief of maritime emergencies at the Italian government agency for protection of the environment, told Reuters: "If the Costa Concordia slides further down and the fuel begins seeping into the water, we could be talking years and dozens of millions of euros before it can be cleared up.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Mr. Alcaro has a Anthropocentric perspective. He does not mention the environment itself but is worried about the time and money it would cost to fix the problem.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Corrado Clini, Italy’s environment minister, warned parliament that the Costa Concordia is carrying enough fuel and oil to compare it to a small tanker, adding that even a minor spillage would be disastrous to the flora and fauna in the region. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX107810682" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Mr. Clini has a Biocentric perspective. He knows how venerable the environment is, and values it more than the cost of preventing damage to it.

Very clear and concise here, well done spotting these contrasting value systems. Mrs S, 26/01

=Part 3 - Local Environmental Issue= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX135083722" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #739131; font-family: Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 21px;">Australia should stop importing illegally sourced timber <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX67928820" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">[]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #366092; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 17px;">Facts about Illegal Logging
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">According to the World Bank, illegal logging costs the global market more than US$10 billion a year.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Every year around $452 million worth of illegal timber is imported into Australia.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">About 22 per cent of the wooden furniture imported into Australia every year (more than one in every five pieces of wooden furniture) is believed to be made from illegal timber.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Australia is the largest importer of processed timber from Papua New Guinea, where the World Bank estimates 70 per cent of the logging is illegally conducted.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Indonesia is losing more than two million hectares of forest per year to logging and burning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The Australian Conservation Society is trying to persuade the Australian Government to only import legal and sustainable timber and furniture. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">"Australia should only allow a timber trade that is independently certified from legal and sustainable sources. " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">The opposing argument is economic and cultural.  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Economic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">It is much cheaper to import wood that has been illegally logged as it is more abundant overseas.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Cultural
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">Countries such as Papua New Guinea and Indonesia do not place a high value on sustainability but are focusing on a quick and easy profit.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: 'segoe ui',tahoma,verdana,'sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX92865584" style="font-family: Calibri,Sans-Serif; font-size: 15px;">I believe that the Government should disallow the import of illegal logging as well as create more sustainable timber sources within Australia.

Off to an excellent start Jefferson - great work on the glossary too. You have an eye for finding the key points in an issue - great! You`ll really see ESS related issues every day in the media that will help expand your understanding of the issues and provide you with lots of real life examples. Great work, Mrs S 26/01

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