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... problem is overweight , our major agricultural problem is our ever - mounting excess production . Does anyone seriously believe this means that we have no population problem ? Our housing problems ; our traffic problem ; the ...
... problem is overweight , our major agricultural problem is our ever - mounting excess production . Does anyone seriously believe this means that we have no population problem ? Our housing problems ; our traffic problem ; the ...
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... problem is solved . The sonic boom " problem , " of course , cannot be " solved . " One job of the ecologist is to dispel this faith in tech- nology . Even if we dispense with the idea that ecologists are some sort of environmental ...
... problem is solved . The sonic boom " problem , " of course , cannot be " solved . " One job of the ecologist is to dispel this faith in tech- nology . Even if we dispense with the idea that ecologists are some sort of environmental ...
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... problems it causes . This is what sociologists have called a " pseudo - event . " That is , activities go on which give the appearance of tackling the problem ; they will not , of course , solve it but only remove public pressure for a ...
... problems it causes . This is what sociologists have called a " pseudo - event . " That is , activities go on which give the appearance of tackling the problem ; they will not , of course , solve it but only remove public pressure for a ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods