Whats the distinction between the terms environmental protection, natural resources management and climate change?
Jim Jarvie: Environmental protection is any measure taken to protect any aspect of the environment. A measure could be as simple as fencing off an eroding slope to protect it from grazing while allowing vegetation to recover and bind the substrate, [or as complicated] as putting high-tech carbon dioxide scrubbers in the chimney stacks of power stations to reduce carbon emissions. Natural resources management has a variety of definitions – I prefer it to mean the management of renewable resources occurring in nature. So soil, forest and fisheries all count; we aim to use them and manage them in such a way as to maintain their health as they renew themselves after we take a harvest. Oil, coal and metals don’t [renew themselves] – there is a finite amount of each that won’t be renewing harvested stocks. Climate change is just as it says: a change in climate. This has happened numerous times in earth’s history, even including mini-ice ages in the last millennium. However, now the meaning i
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