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Five Ways to Save the World is a British documentary film on environmental issues related to climate change, released in 2006.The film was made by Karen O'Connor, for the big screen and was shot in the English language to reach an international audience.
Environmental protection, or environment protection, is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. [1] Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where it is possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.
For some pollutants, simple exposure is enough to do damage (e.g. pesticides). For others, its through inhaling (e.g. air pollutants) or ingesting it (e.g. toxic metals). Pollutants affect different species in different ways so a pollutant that is bad for one might not affect another.
The season began with a special hour-long programme on BBC One entitled "Sharing Planet Earth", a clarion call for action to conserve nature, presented by David Attenborough. It was followed by nine documentaries broadcast nightly over the course of a fortnight, in which celebrities investigated the plight of endangered species.
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
If you collected all the water you use at home every day in a bucket, you'd need a pretty big bucket. One that holds 82 gallons, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And that's ...
Natural habitats can provide Ecosystem services to humans, which are "any positive benefit that wildlife or ecosystems provide to people." [10] The natural environment is a source for a wide range of resources that can be exploited for economic profit, for example timber is harvested from forests and clean water is obtained from natural streams.
Protected Areas and Conservation at Our World in Data; Dictionary of the History of ideas: Conservation of Natural Resources; For Future Generations, a Canadian documentary on how the conservation ethic influenced national parks; Category List --- Religion-Online.org "Ecology/Environment"