Biomes And Ecosystems

 A habitat is the place where a population lives. A population is a group of living organisms of the same kind living in the same place at the same time. All of the populations interact and form a community. The community of living things interacts with the non-living world around.
 
Ecosystems are dynamic interactions between plants, animals and microorganisms and their environment working together as a functional unit. Ecosystems will fail if they do not remain in balance.
Every time we walk out in the wilderness or bulldoze land for a new parking lot, we are drastically altering an ecosystem. We have disrupted the food chain, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the water cycle. Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. We're all in this together. The water, water temperature, plants, animals, air, light and soil all work together.
 
Biomes are defined as "the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment". Biomes are the world's major habitats. These habitats are identified by the vegetation and animals that populate them. The location of each biome is determined by the regional climate. Some climates are hot, some are cold, some are wet and some are dry. "Adapted" means that a plant or animal has inherited certain characteristics that enable it to live in one type of climate or another.
 
Over the past several decades, increasing human activity has rapidly destroyed or polluted many ecological habitats throughout the world.

        Trade

Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both.
Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services. Trade originated with the start of communication in prehistoric times. Trading was the main facility of prehistoric people, who bartered goods and services from each other before the innovation of the modern day currency. Modern traders instead generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. The invention of money (and later credit, paper money and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. The first instances of money were objects with intrinsic value. This is called commodity money and includes any commonly-available commodity that has intrinsic value; historical examples include pigs, rare seashells, whale's teeth, and (often) cattle. In medieval Iraq, bread was used as an early form of money. In Mexico under Montezuma cocoa beans were money. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade.
 
A market economy or free market economy is an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods and services take place through the mechanism of free markets guided by a free price system.
In a market economy, businesses and consumers decide of their own volition what they will purchase and produce, and in which decisions about the allocation of those resources are without government intervention. This means that the producer gets to decide what to produce, how much to produce, what to charge customers for those goods, what to pay employees, etc., and not the government.
 
Today, slavery is practised secretly.
The word slave refers to people who are treated as the property of another person, household, company, corporation or government.
The human merchandise, whether imported or domestic, is still paraded, inspected and treated like animals.
 
The arms industry makes its profits on the back of machines designed to kill and maim human beings.
Global military spending has risen more than 45% in the past decade, reaching $1.5 trillion in 2008.
Depleted uranium remains radioactive for literally billions of years, now is given practically free of charge to the military and arms manufacturers.
Radiation respects no borders, no socioeconomic class and no religion.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

      Justice

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
 
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.
Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
 
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
 
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
 
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
 
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
 
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
 
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
 
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.