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Anthropocene

relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

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Extirpated

Local disappearance of a species
Extirpated

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Human-Centric Futurism Viewpoint

Humans claim the responsibility to ensure
that similar biodiversity exists in the
future.

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Environmental Wisdom

It recognizes humans as an integral part of the environment, not its masters, and emphasizes the importance of stewardship, conservation,

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earths life support system

water, air, life, rocks and soil

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human cultureshpere

population, economics, politics, technology

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Earth’s atmosphere is composed
of

78 percent nitrogen.
• 21 percent oxygen.
• 0.9 percent argon.
• 0.1 percent other gases

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aerobic condition

the presence of oxygen

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anerobic condition

withount the presence of oxygen

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Fast fashion footprint

Production is kept high with no regard for
the environment
● Most of the clothing produced ends up in
landfills
● Clothes that end up in the environment
add to the al
ready growing microplastics
issue

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what percent of the world’s carbon emissions are due to the production of fashion

10%

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what percent of microplastics make up plastic pollution in oceans

31%

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Soil Erosion

The loss of the top layer of soil

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Land use change

educes farmland,
harms soil, and increases pollution and floods. It also destroys forests and animal
homes, adds carbon to the air, and makes the Earth hotter.

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SCOTOBIOLOGY

the study of biological systems that
require nightly darkness for their
effective performance;

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Ecological niche

role of an organism in their environment

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photoaxis

the bodily movement of a motile organism in response to light

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Oceans (and seas) cover ?
of the planet.

71%

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hypoxic zones

low oxygen zones in the deep ocean,

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thermohaline processes)

the movement of water in the ocean and groundwater driven by density differences, which are determined by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline).

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coriolis effect

This effect deflects moving water to the right in the North and to the left in the South, causing complex wind patterns that drive the large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. 

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The Global
Conveyor Belt

also known as thermohaline circulation, is a system of ocean currents that circulates water throughout the planet, driven by differences in temperature and salinity

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Nutrient pollution

the process where too many nutrients,
mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, are added to bodies of
water”

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Eutrophication

Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or
other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land,
which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal
life from lack of oxygen.


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