... future in which people live in harmony with nature. We seek to save a planet, a world of life. Reconciling the needs of human beings and the needs of others that share the Earth, we seek to practice conservation that is humane in the broadest sense. We seek to instill in people everywhere a discriminating, yet ... smallest community to the largest multinational organization, we seek to inspire others who can advance the cause of conservation. (World Wildlife Fund [WWF], 2014, p. 1). The goal of the paper is to give a detailed view of five specific endangered species, and how we can ensur...

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... the winter and turning it up in the summer. Or better yet, try using fans instead of air conditioning in the summer months. You can help some energy by recycling paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum-it takes energy to make all of these products. When it comes to energy conservation, little things mean a lot. Some of the changes we make in our lives in order to save ... energy may not be pleasant. It is hard to cut down on conveniences that we are accustomed to ... to provide incentives to encourage them to do so. Serious efforts to conserve energy will have many benefits. Most important...

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... the winter and turning it up in the summer. Or better yet, try using fans instead of air conditioning in the summer months. You can help some energy by recycling paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum-it takes energy to make all of these products. When it comes to energy conservation, little things mean a lot. Some of the changes we make in our lives in order to save ... energy may not be pleasant. It is hard to cut down on conveniences that we are accustomed to ... to provide incentives to encourage them to do so. Serious efforts to conserve energy will have many benefits. Most important...

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... comes from the land compared to a negligible amount which is from oceans and other aquatic habitats. For a sustained production of food, it is imperative to have ample fertile land, fresh water, energy and biodiversity etc.. Demographic growth will necessitate more of these resources. Even if the resources are kept within a "sustainable" limit, they will not suffice on a per ... atmosphere and related greenhouse effect, acid rain and climate change etc. Strategies for the future must be based on the conservation and careful management of land, water, energy, and biological resources need...

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... cut emissions by 50 to 70% just to stabilize the level of these gases in the atmosphere. To do this, industrialized countries need to agree on rapid reductions in emissions. Among other steps, this means shifting from private car use to public transportation, energy conservation, and a shift to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In the developing countries, vastly ... increased resources are needed to promote renewable energy and to create financial incentives to keep the last great forests intact. Switching to renewable ... energy sources means sound alternatives to coal...

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... and the Precautionary Principle Climate change is not a problem of efficiency as economists would argue. It is much of a problem of value in that it concerns, how we live? What kind of society we want and our relationship with nature. It is possible that our personal values are insufficient to the task of environmental conservation in the sense that what we consider important presupposes ... climate change control (Barrett, Scott. 2003, p.14). The problem of climate change is a problem that would require that we rethink our humanity principles. People should abandon some approaches to th...

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... landfills, polluted water, and reduced air quality, leading to different temperatures and bipolar climate changes known as global warming. Global warming is one of the biggest problems faced in today's world. Greenhouse gases, pollution, and deforestation is effected and increasing global warming, thus becoming very dangerous ... carrying freshwater into oceans often carry pollutants and industrial waste, thus forming flocculation, which are pollutants clumped together and descended to the bottom of the sea. Even climate changes can do damage to oceans. According to Sudeshna Chowdhury, "...

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... their claims, how could they not be an alarmist organization. Satellite evidence over the past thirty years shows decreases in the overall temperature of the atmosphere. However, their were small increases in surface temperature over large urban cities. This is more common sense than scientific fact, ... anomalies do the opposite (NASA Earth). there is also solid satellite evidence showing that the atmosphere has actually been getting cooler. Dr. William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility believes that the Earths temperature natural fluctuates and eventually returns to its origina...

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... and the biosphere. The greenhouse gases work to trap the heat producing energy on our Earth, and pretty much does a good job of it if left undisturbed. We have disturbed it. The human production of greenhouse gas producing chemicals is what is disturbing it. This production by humans of these particular gases linger in our atmosphere for many many years and they ... the country of Turkey. But the business community is slowly starting to realize this as being a very important issue and with the accumulating scientific evidence they cannot use denying the problem as a credible strategy. A ...

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... and salinization.[ CITATION Ali09 l 1033 ]. The implementation of cross-curricular programs in secondary schools in Fiji has successfully integrated the principles of Earth Charter[ CITATION She13 l 1033 ]. Activities such as energy audits by science classes assists in understanding the relationship between consumption of energy and global warming. The adaption of ethical virtues to live sustainably require humans to re- ... examine and focus on changing their values and behavior. The Pacific island society needs to have a deontological outlook to promote the virtues of conservation and ...

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... is threatened due to calcification and salinization. The implementation of cross-curricular programs in secondary schools in Fiji has successfully integrated the principles of Earth Charter[She13]. Activities such as energy audits by science classes assists in understanding the relationship between consumption of energy and global warming. The adaption of ethical virtues to live sustainably require humans to re- ... examine and focus on changing their values and behavior. The Pacific island society needs to have a deontological outlook to promote the virtues of conservation and preserva...

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... by several inches. Everything is unstable and now scientists can only predict various outcomes, one prediction that according to the California Department of Conservation Division of mines and geology will occur in the next 20 to 50 years is an earthquake magnitude 7.5 or greater and has been given the ... to Baja California, Mexico. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, an organization dedicated to reducing impacts of earthquakes in the states of Washington and Oregon reported, "The earthquake will release enough energy to equal 16,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs." People have to be able ...

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