which has the greater environmental destructive potential, mankind or nature?

Mankind

•Manmade global warming

•Pollution•Soil

degradation (erosion,

runoff, etc.)•Nuclear warfare

Nature

•Mega tsunami and flooding

•Large earthquake•Hurricanes

•Drought•Super volcano

and climate change

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http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm

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•Unzen Volcano

•Krakatoa explosion

•Indian Ocean

Notable Incidents

http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/

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0•Overgrazing.•Overfarming without crop

rotating.

CausesCauses land to become unfertile.

Was responsible

for the American Dust Bowl.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/land_deg/land_deg.html

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•Shaanxi-

•Indian Ocean-

Could possibly trigger a volanco.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

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•Love canal•Radiation

Contamination

•Smog•Acid Rain

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/pollute.html

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•Bhola cyclone•Indian cyclone

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

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•Sahel drought•Sometimes caused by

overgrazing

"Drought for kids." www.drought.unl.edu. University of Nebraska Lincoln. 26 Jan 2009

<http://drought.unl.edu/kids/>.

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Nagasaki•Stockpiles

•Tsar Bomba

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm

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•Krakatoa•Tambora

•Huaynaputina•The Year without a summer•Volcanic

winter•Lake Toba

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•"Tsunami." www.tsunami.noaa.gov. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 18 Jan 2009 <http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/>.

•"Land Degredation." www.umich.edu. University of Michigan. 18 Jan 2009 <http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/land_deg/

land_deg.html>.•"USGS Home." www.earthquake.usgs.gov. United States Geological Survey. 18 Jan 2009

<http://earthquake.usgs.gov/>.Jerrie S., Cheek. "Pollution." www.edtech.kennesaw.edu. 8 August 2005. Educational

Technology Center. 26 Jan 2009 <http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/pollute.html>."Drought for kids." www.drought.unl.edu. University of Nebraska Lincoln. 26 Jan 2009

<http://drought.unl.edu/kids/>.