GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: American Forests, Externality, Natural Resources Conservation Service
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America"s largest offshore wind farm just got approved - rhode island. Biggest issues is how to shift from fossil fuels to alternative energy. Alternative sources, such as large solar panels , require space. May interfere with wildlife, general aesthetics, and contribute to noise pollution. Suddenly opposed to something when it"s in your backyard. Any part of the natural environment used to promote the welfare of people of other species. Protecting them from human activities that might alter their natural state. Resources in undisturbed places have high economic value. First 200 years of u. s. history were a time of environmental destruction (1600s 1800s) Environmental concerns were not really an issue in the past. Preservation, such as this reserve in bolivia, became early 20th century concern. Painted portraits of birds and other animals in north america. Wrote man and nature about humans as agents of environmental change in 1864.
