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The environment is commonly
misconstrued and narrowed
down to nature conservation,
specifically saving trees.
Environmentalists are
stereotyped as fanatics—who
wear beards, sandals, or
hippy skirts, and possibly
all of the above—who we see
chaining themselves to trees
in the Amazon forest or
boarding an oil-rig to
protest against the
destruction of nature in the
name of corporate profit...
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Redefining words
The environment is not just nature
conservation, and even less just trees. The
environment is everything that surrounds us.
It is the earth, cement, or concrete that we
walk on, it is the habitats we live, learn,
and work in, and it is the air, whether
clean or not, that we breathe. Literally
everything that we see, smell, touch, taste,
and hear, came from nature at one given
time.
Man and Nature
Over time, mankind has processed, used, and
refined natural elements so as to best meet
their needs, using processes which are more
and more complex and sophisticated. However
a number of these practices, in fact most,
have in some way, shape, or form, an
environmental impact.
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Our Philosophy
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Environmental Impacts
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Rethinking and Reworking Man’s
Relationship with the Environment
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Air-conditioning systems represent the greatest source of climate change
gases due to a single technology.
In the USA, which has only 4% of the of the world’s population and yet
produces around 25% of the global CO2 annually, over 40% of electricity
generated is used in air-conditioning systems.
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