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Earth First describes itself as a global organization, but its website contains links to local chapters in Montreal, the Netherlands, and Humboldt and Santa Cruz, California. What does this suggest about the organization?

Garrett Hardin believes that “a ‘just’ sharing of the world’s wealth among all the inhabitants, without coercive control of individual reproduction, would result in a continual, exponential growth of the human population” and much more suffering. This means Hardin is a

Two part question: Why do new things make us sad? What is the term for always adding new items to our lives?

The Environmental Defense Fund hires scientists, economists, and lawyers to lobby the government and to educate the public about the environmental consequences of modern life. They claim to have had a part in passing important elements of the Clean Air Act, California’s emissions rules, and a treaty to phase out CFCs. With what era of the environmental movement is this sort of organization most commonly associated?

According to Georg Simmel, city dwellers relate to one another

According to Randall Collins, our educational system is much like a “tribal initiation rite,” a “secret society,” or a “closed occupational caste.” For Collins, it is not a rational system that produces more efficient production but a mechanism for

According to sociologist Randall Collins, how would barring employers from asking about educational credentials reform and improve the educational system?

What is a common cause of amputations in adults?

An OT department is choosing a cognitive screening tool to be used with all clients being admitted to the hospital. They want a tool that requires no training and is quick to administer. What tool would they MOST LIKELY choose?

An OTA is working with a client in a rehabilitation facility who has right hemiparesis. What type of precautions would MOST LIKELY be in place for this client?