(par 5.4.4.2 ) Urban sprawl (taken from Wikipedia)
Urban sprawl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This picture shows the metropolitan areas of the Northeast Megalopolis of the United States demonstrating urban sprawl, including far-flung suburbs and exurbs illuminated at night. Traffic congestion in sprawling São Paulo, Brazil, which, according to Time magazine, has the world’s worst traffic jams.[1] Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into previously remote and […]
(par 5.3.2.2.3) Atop Food Chain, Ospreys Ingest Many Poisons
Atop Food Chain, Ospreys Ingest Many Poisons, Revealing Environmental Dangers http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140826-ospreys-environment-pollutant-contaminant-health-science/ As apex predators, ospreys get a mega-dose of contaminants from their prey. An osprey grabs a fish in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. By Christopher Solomon for Environmental Health News – Published August 26, 2014 PITT MEADOWS, British Columbia—On an early spring morning, the Pitt River […]
(par 5.2.1.4.1) Thomas Robert Malthus (taken from Wikipedia)
Thomas Robert Malthus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834[1]) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economyand demography.[2] Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.[3] His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to […]