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Environment: The environment encompasses everything that exists around us and has a direct or indirect influence on living beings and ecosystems. This includes air, water, soil, plants, animals and the climate. It also refers to man-made elements and the impact of human activities on the natural environment.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Evgeny Morozov on Environment - Dictionary of Arguments

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Environment/Measuring/Morozov: It is a misunderstanding to take the decision to measure the consumption of resources such as water and electricity as a real reform of how WATER AND electricity enters our homes. The measurement itself should ideally only be a small step towards better behaviour.
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Problem: it is not possible to tell a good story about improvements that insist only on such measurements, without a picture of how water, gas and electricity come into our homes. Measuring does not deliver this story.
>Technology
, >Technocracy, >Progress.
Environment/Resources/Anonymity/Maria Kaika/Morozov: anthropologist Maria Kaika writes: the supply of water, electricity and gas seems to come from nowhere (...) similarly our garbage disappears in some hole in the wall... (1)
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Resource Consumption/Veronica Strang: Thesis: measuring focuses us on private property ((s) of energy companies) and not on the population as a whole when it comes to the use of resources.(2) This also reinforces the isolation in which individuals have the feeling that the consumption of resources takes place in their own fortress.(3)

Cf.
>Emission permits, >Emission reduction credits, >Emission targets, >Emissions, >Emissions trading, >Climate change, >Climate damage, >Energy policy, >Clean Energy Standards, >Climate data, >Climate history, >Climate justice, >Climate periods, >Climate targets, >Climate impact research, >Carbon price, >Carbon price coordination, >Carbon price strategies, >Carbon tax, >Carbon tax strategies.

1. Maria Kaika, City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City (Oxford: Psychology Press, 2005), 46.
2. Veronica Strang, The Meaning of Water (London: Berg, 2004), 228.
3. ibid. 230.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

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