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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment.
		Generally, an ecological crisis is what occurs when the environment of life of a species or a population evolves in an unfavourable way to its survival.
		Lastly, an ecological crisis may be local (as an oil spill) or global (a rise in the sea level related to global warming).
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	Ecological crisis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		An ecological crisis occurs when the (The area in which something exists or lives) environment of a ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species or a ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population changes in a way that destablizes its continued survival.
		It may be that the environment becomes unfavourable for the survival of a species (or a population) due to an increase pressure of (The act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey) predation (for example overfishing).
		Lastly, it may be that the situation becomes unfavourable to the quality of life of the species (or the population) due to raise in the number of individuals ((Too much population) overpopulation).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/ecological_crisis.htm (229 words)

	marxist analysis of the ecological crisis
		Damage to the environment often has an irreversible impact on man and nature and the ecological crisis on the horizon at the dawn of the 21st Century is endangering the lives of millions of people.
		And yet, the ecological crisis as we know it is not the linear outcome of industrial development since the 19th century.
		Among the most dramatic manifestations of the ecological crisis, the destruction of the world's forests is among the most disturbing, because of the extent of its consequences.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/fi-ecology.html (11572 words)

	Ecological crisis
		An ecological crisis is what occurs when the environment of life of a species or a population evolves in an unfavourable way to its survival.
		Capitalism is the main cause of both overpopulation and the ecological crisis.
		All 10 million Europeans - Asserts that fear of population growth and ecological crisis may soon be replaced by fear of population collapse, since global forecasts include scenarios of decline, in Europe it seems unavoidable.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Ecological_crisis.html (406 words)

	The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility
		On another level, delicate ecological balances are upset by the uncontrolled destruction of animal and plant life or by a reckless exploitation of natural resources.
		The complexity of the ecological question is evident to all.
		In many cases the effects of ecological problems transcend the borders of individual States; hence their solution cannot be found solely on the national level.
	www.ncrlc.com /ecological_crisis.html (3166 words)

	Ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ecology is essentially the study of the workings of the planet Earth.
		It may be that the environment becomes unfavourable for the survival of a species (or a population) due to an increase pressure of predation (for example overfishing).
		Lastly, it may be that the situation becomes unfavourable to the quality of life of the species (or the population) due to rise in the number of individuals (overpopulation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecology (3374 words)

	Ecological crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		An ecological crisis is what occurs when the ecology or environment of a species or a population changes in a way to which its continued survival.
		It may be that the environment becomes for the survival of a species (or population) due to an increase pressure of predation (for example overfishing).
		Lastly it may be that the situation unfavourable to the quality of life of species (or the population) due to raise the number of individuals (overpopulation).
	www.freeglossary.com /Ecological_crisis (350 words)

	World Day of Peace 1990
		Moreover, a new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which, rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programmes and initiatives.
		Today, the dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness - both individual and collective - are contrary to the order of creation, an order which is characterized by mutual interdependence.
		The ecological crisis reveals the urgent moral need for a new solidarity, especially in relations between the developing nations and those that are highly industrialized.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19891208_xxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html (3172 words)

	Ecological Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Schumacher thought the answer to man's spiritual and ecological crisis lay in what he called "intermediate technology"--energy-light, human-sized technology...
		the uppermost section of the Damodar river to document the ecological impact of...
		The issues of greatest importance to Japan were those not mentioned in the campaign: ecological crisis, diplomatic isolation, chronic indebtedness, population...
	ecological-crisis.wikiverse.org (259 words)

	Ecological Sin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The ecological crisis and the host of actions contributing to that crisis are best understood in the context of sin.
		Ecologically, sin is the refusal to act in the image of God, as responsible representatives who value and love the host of interdependent creatures in their ecosystems, which the Creator values and loves.
		Ecological sin is expressed as the arrogant denial of the creaturely limitations imposed on human ingenuity and technology....
	www.nacce.org /1998/EcologicalSin.html (189 words)

	Read about Ecological crisis at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Ecological crisis and learn about Ecological crisis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		An ecological crisis occurs when the environment of a
		ecological factor (for example, an increase of temperature, less significant rainfalls).
		punctuated equilibrium sees infrequent ecological crises as a potential driver of rapid evolution.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Ecological_crisis (172 words)

	Ecological crisis - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes (S U N Y Series in Philosophy of Education)
		Students of marine biology have long been fascinated by the superorganisms called coral reefs, formed over thousands of years from skeletal remains and other matter.
		Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason is a frontal attack on the irrational assumptions that drive Western society's progress toward ecological catastrophe.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ecological_crisis.htm (296 words)

	Thirty Great Books on Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		But the global ecological crisis is forcing us to question these primary cultural realities, and our task now is to begin to understand and adopt the concept of an ecologically sustainable culture.
		“Ecological literacy” is a morally and experientially engaged way of knowing, involving a sense of wonder and respect for life and the realization that all human activities have consequences for the larger ecosystem.
		Ecological literacy involves the whole body and feelings, not only the intellect; it cultivates a sense of place, not a rootless abstract intelligence; and it is most concerned witn wholeness, connection, and relationship, rather than fragmenting knowledge into discrete specialties.
	www.great-ideas.org /30-22.htm (396 words)

	20th WCP: Environmental Destruction: A Philosophical-Anthropological Perspective
		It is no secret anylonger that the ecological crisis puts mankind as a whole to an existential test which have to be solved in practice and in theory.
		The second is that she has to demonstrate her inherent capacity on enlightening reflections and interpretations on the ecological crisis.
		This point of view became practical in the ecological crisis then and is one reason among others for the overexploitation of all non — human things.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anth/AnthMein.htm (2198 words)

	Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Ecological Crisis
		The crisis had three major turning points and thus progressed in three phases: the "holding out" phase of August 19, 1994, the "giving in" phase of September 9, 1994, and the retrenching phase in which the secret immigration accord of May 2, 1995 was concluded.
		At the height of the crisis, the indefinite detainment of Cuban rafters at Guantanamo threatened irreparable damage to the ecology.
		Potentially, the most ecological damage would have occurred in the clearing of the virgin forest located on the base, which is home to several plant and animal species endangered on the island.
	www.american.edu /TED/guantan.htm (5120 words)

	VUW Chaplaincies / Issues / The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The history of ecologic change is still so rudimentary that we know little about what really happened, or what the results were.
		The quite sudden fusion of these two, towards the middle of the 19th century, is surely related to the slightly prior and contemporary democratic revolutions which, by reducing social barriers, tended to assert a functional unity of brain and hand.
		His view of nature and of man rested on a unique sort of pan-psychism of all things animate and inanimate, designed for the glorification of their transcendent Creator, who, in the ultimate gesture of cosmic humility, assumed flesh, lay helpless in a manger, and hung dying on a scaffold.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /chaplains/issues/eco1.html (4682 words)

	Choike - The ecological debt crisis and climate change
		This is because we are trapped between two debt crises: the foreign financial debt crisis suffered by most of the poor world (which depending on your viewpoint has been either managed or exacerbated by the World Bank), and the ecological debt crisis faced by the rich world, best demonstrated by climate change.
		With the ecological debt of climate change, however, responsibility is much easier to attribute, and much harder to argue with.
		I call climate change an ecological debt problem because it represents a large group of society living increasingly beyond its means.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/3058.html (2091 words)

	D.4 What is the relationship between capitalism and the ecological crisis? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Many anarchists see the ecological crisis as rooted in the psychology of domination, which emerged with the rise of patriarchy, slavery, and the first primitive states during the Late Neolithic.
		Thus capitalism causes ecological destruction because it is based upon domination (of human over human and so humanity over nature) and continual, endless growth (for without growth, capitalism would die).
		Most simply ignore the evidence or view the situation through rose-coloured spectacles, maintaining that ecological problems are not as serious as they seem or that science will find a way to solve them before it's too late.
	www.spunk.org /texts/intro/faq/sp001547/secD4.html (1171 words)

	Takis Fotopoulos - Globalisation, ecological crisis and Inclusive Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		This is not simply a theoretical exercise because the very explanation we give to the causes of the present multi-dimensional crisis, of which the ecological crisis is a major component, depends on the approach we adopt.
		It is now widely accepted that the greenhouse effect, which is the main symptom of the ecological crisis today, is already leading to catastrophic climatic consequences[viii].
		ecological Democracy, in which the democratic institutional framework and the value system which is compatible with it secure the necessary conditions for the reintegration of society and nature.
	www.democracynature.org /fotopoulos/brglob/sicily_may_2001.htm (7369 words)

	THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS A COMMON RESPONSIBILITY Message of His Holiness POPE JOHN PAUL II fo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		IN OUR DAY, there is a growing awareness that world peace is threatened not only by the arms race, regional conflicts and continued injustices among peoples and nations, but also by a lack of DUE RESPECT FOR NATURE, by the plundering of natural resources and by an progressive decline in the quality of life.
		The public in general as well as political leaders are concerned abut this problem, and experts from a wide range of disciplines are studying its causes.
		In these cases, pollution or environmental destruction is the result of an unnatural and reductionist vision which at times leads to a genuine contempt for man. On another level, delicate ecological balances are upset by the uncontrolled destruction of animal and plant life or by a reckless exploitation of natural resources.
	www.skepticfiles.org /faq/ecologic.htm (3273 words)

	Ecological Crisis Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
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	Environmental Culture : The Ecological Crisis of Reason by Val Plumwood : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		And she writes with a sense of urgency that is appropriate for the large-scale ecological destruction being wrought by our current systems.
		Ultimately, she recommends a new rationality and ethic that can restore the world, one based on fundamental shifts in our thinking, such as expanding our ethics to include other species, and developing a place-based spirituality.
		Plumwood's prescriptions may be harder to swallow than her compelling critique of our failure of reason, but they point the way toward a world healed of its ecological crisis.
	www.crimsonbird.com /cgi-bin/a.cgi?j=0415178789 (350 words)

	Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith / Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation / Jim Ball / March 1998
		This article is an attempt to describe and analyze the concept of ecology contained in the evangelical Protestant response to the ecological crisis, and to raise questions about its use.
		If there is any sense of natural ecological change, it is teleological development: left to its own devices, each ecosystem will eventuate in a rich, stable, balanced fecundity and diversity of life.
		Barnette, The Church and the Ecological Crisis, 12.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1998/PSCF3-98Ball.html (3940 words)

	How Computers Contribute to the Ecological Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Having recognized the genuine contributions that computers make to addressing the ecological crisis, I also want to argue that computers help reinforce the mindset that has contributed to the disproportionate impact that Western societies have had on degrading the habitat.
		This is particularly surprising because culture, understood here as encompassing both the deep layers of a symbolic world and the whole range of human activities given distinctive form by the shared symbolic sense of order, is an aspect of every humanly caused change in the ecosystems now viewed as endangered.
		The phrase "ecological crisis" should be represented as the "ecological/cultural crisis." When viewed in this way, we can then begin to consider more fully the cultural orientation that is reinforced not only by the epistemology embedded in the computer, but also by how the computer is represented to the public and to students.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v8.1/bowers.html (1714 words)

	E.7 Can green consumerism stop the ecological crisis? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Moreover, it is capable of being used to further ecological damage by the use of PR to paint a false picture of the companies and their environmental activities.
		Because ethical consumerism is based wholly on market solutions to the ecological crisis, it is incapable even of recognising the root cause of that crisis, namely the atomising nature of market society and the social relationships it creates.
		Such solutions are doomed to failure because they promote individual responses to social problems, problems that by their very nature require collective action, and deal only with the symptoms, rather than focusing on the cause of the problem in the first place.
	flag.blackened.net /intanark/faq/secE7.html (1270 words)

	The root of our ecological crisis
		Interestingly, the answer to that question—and a solution—can be found in an examination of the historic roots of the environmental movement itself.
		Over the next 100 years, from 1850 to 1950, Vermont was transformed from an ecological basket case to a special place with a picturesque pastoral landscape known the world over.
		As the popular author Wendell Berry has stated it, our ecological crisis is a crisis of character, not a political or social crisis.
	www.answersingenesis.org /tj/v15/i1/ecology.asp?vPrint=1 (3028 words)

	Ecological Confusion among the Clergy
		The clerics' belief that we are in the grip of an ecological crisis leads them to conclude that humankind's sinful behavior is destroying the garden.
		Ecological historian Frank Egerton observes that Herodotus addressed these ideas as early as 450 B.C. While these concepts may enjoy popular support in Disney movies, Saturday morning cartoons, and the pronouncements of environmental activists, politicians, and clergy, the scholarly community now considers them to be fictions.
		Ecological sustainability, health, and integrity do not constitute inherent properties of any landscape; however, because humans superimpose these properties onto their original construct - the ecosystem - it should not be surprising that debate rages over their meaning, measure, and value.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/2000_fall/fitzsimmons.html (7591 words)

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