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Human Impact EEE 105 Read Ch. 12. Human Impact We were first hunter-gatherers Australian aborigines.

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1 Human Impact EEE 105 Read Ch. 12

2 Human Impact We were first hunter-gatherers Australian aborigines

3 Human Impact We were first hunter-gatherers Human population growth

4 Human Impact We were first hunter-gatherers Human population growth pollution biodegradable non-biodegradable

5 Human Impact We were first hunter-gatherers Human population growth pollution natural resource exploitation renewable resources non-renewable resources

6 Human Impact Resource Exploitation economic costs energy cost ecological costs

7 Human Impact Mineral Resource Exploitation e.g. Coal Countries dependent on coal for electricity non-renewable resource

8 Human Impact Mineral Resource Exploitation e.g. Coal Reserves

9 Human Impact Mineral Resource Exploitation e.g. Coal IL has largest bituminous coal reserves of any state but coal production depressed Lower sulfur western coal out competes IL

10 Human Impact ecological costs of coal sulfur emissions acid rain CO 2 emission global warming

11 Human Impact ecological costs of coal sulfur emissions acid rain CO 2 emission global warming Mining leachate acid arsenic

12 Human Impact ecological costs of coal

13 Human Impact ecological costs of coal

14 Human Impact Strip mining

15 Human Impact Strip mining Surface Mining Act, 1977


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