The Environment and Science: Social Impact and InteractionThe Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the natural world and humankind's place in it from the European colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental policy. Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between business interests and environmentalists, and the role of scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power, pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of environmental degradation. |
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Beyond the familiar Mediterranean and European setting, they found a vast array
of species and resources previously unknown to the scientific world. These
discoveries and the subsequent settlement of new lands led to dramatic changes
in ...
Beyond the familiar Mediterranean and European setting, they found a vast array
of species and resources previously unknown to the scientific world. These
discoveries and the subsequent settlement of new lands led to dramatic changes
in ...
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Yet, despite the similarity in climate, the plants exhibited tremendous variation
when compared with the familiar species of Europe. Fitting these new forms into
existing classification systems presented a mounting problem to botanists, which
...
Yet, despite the similarity in climate, the plants exhibited tremendous variation
when compared with the familiar species of Europe. Fitting these new forms into
existing classification systems presented a mounting problem to botanists, which
...
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Does it give birth to live young that are then nursed by their female parents?
Does it primarily eat meat? If yes to each of these, it could be a species in the
order of carnivores, which belongs within the class of mammals. One would have
to go ...
Does it give birth to live young that are then nursed by their female parents?
Does it primarily eat meat? If yes to each of these, it could be a species in the
order of carnivores, which belongs within the class of mammals. One would have
to go ...
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classifying species from around the world. He based it on his collection of plants,
which eventually consisted of 19,000 pages of pressed specimens. His collection
included 3,200 insects and 2,500 minerals, which he also attempted to include ...
classifying species from around the world. He based it on his collection of plants,
which eventually consisted of 19,000 pages of pressed specimens. His collection
included 3,200 insects and 2,500 minerals, which he also attempted to include ...
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When confronted with the remains of species apparently no longer in existence,
other naturalists made the assumption that those species had gone extinct due to
some unappreciated whim of God's will, or that those species still existed in ...
When confronted with the remains of species apparently no longer in existence,
other naturalists made the assumption that those species had gone extinct due to
some unappreciated whim of God's will, or that those species still existed in ...
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Página 135 - A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Página 250 - Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold...
Página 252 - Therefore, during the modification of the descendants of any one species, and during the incessant struggle of all species to increase in numbers, the more diversified the descendants become, the better will be their chance of success in the battle for life.
Página 252 - The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth.
Página 249 - I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Página 236 - I knew, the watch might have always been there, yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone ? Why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the first ? For this reason, and for no other...
Página 251 - But if variations useful to any organic being ever do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life ; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural Selection.
Página 249 - Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe...
Página 250 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearances, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction Science and society |
| Autor | Christian C. Young |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | ABC-CLIO, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1576079635, 9781576079638 |
| Largo | 299 páginas |
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