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Ecology: Organisms and Their Environments
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Ecology: Organisms and Their Environments in the Real World
Shmoop keeps it real. Let's see how this topic is connected to some of the big issues in society and the world.
Ethics
In all this talk about logistic population growth and carrying capacities, it's important to recognize that the human population, in a worldwide sense, also has a carrying capacity. The Earth canno...
Literature
Ecology is found in classic literature of all sorts. Charles Dickens, for example, touched on the ethical questions of human population growth and density in many of his novels. One of Dickens' mos...
Politics
The term "arms race" came into the public’s psyche during the Cold War between the USSR and the United States. During this time, each country spent billions of dollars and millions of man-hours p...
