Why exactly do we humans have such an incredibly large influence on other species and the natural world? We are unique among animal species in that we survive and reproduce in a wide variety of environments through cultural adaptations (Richerson et al. 1996). In contrast, other species are primarily able to survive and reproduce due to biological adaptations that result from eons of natural selection and biological evolution. The cultural adaptations of humans have allowed them to colonize nearly every ecosystem type on Earth. In addition, cultural innovations have allowed the human population to grow exponentially for millennia. Such sustained population growth is unparalleled by any other species on the planet. The population of a typical species grows until it reaches the carrying capacity of its environment, then levels off or declines. In other words, it grows until it is fully utilizing the available resources, such as food and space. At this point mechanisms such as disease and starvation keep the population from continuing to grow. However, we humans have responded to resource scarcity with cultural practices and technologies that increase the availability of resources. We raise our food on farms and live in multi-story apartment buildings, increasing the carrying capacity of the environment for humans. This growth eventually requires yet more cultural adaptations to increase resources, and the alteration of the natural environment and the rate of cultural evolution is accelerated. Currently the global human population is large enough and the technologies that allow humans to manipulate the environment are potent enough that human-caused alterations to the biosphere are causing the extinction of innumerable wildlife species. If present trends continue, there will be an eventual crash in the human population that will bring great suffering and cause widespread environmental damage. This is the root cause of the modern environmental crisis. This chapter deals with how we got into the present situation from the perspective of cultural interactions with wildlife and wild lands.
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To share a brief understanding of experts, who is an expert, an expert is considered, someone who has enough experience to carry put a particular task, he or she understands the possible scenarios and problems that might likely affect a system. While a non expert is someone, not that he doesn't understand the system, he might but not in details ,not enough experience unlike am expert.
So from the above analogy between experts and non experts ,it can be deduced that the method and approach to work from an expert will be more detailed because the possible scenarios of the task, he very much understands it buh a non expert, thou he might understand the task , but the approach to the system might be difference. An expert will potentially go straight to the point of the task, and even before starting the task already has a full knowledge of the problem compared to am non expert that might nor have a general knowledge of the task buh approaching the task with just confidence of previous works related to such task. I believe from the few points I have been able to point out the differences between an expert and non expert.
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paper industries, forest products, lumbering and also mining
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<u>East Asian societies largely controlled their own affairs until the Nineteenth Century.</u>
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Note that historical reports suggest that up until the Nineteenth century East Asian societies largely controlled their own affairs after the arrival of the Europeans.
Remember also that at the time East Asia constitutes of modern day China, Hong Kong, Macao, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
