Acknowledgements
This week of the course was written by David Robinson and Yoseph Araya. It was first published in August 2019.
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Figure 4: Pudding4brains
Figure 10: taken from: http://tchester.org/ index.html
Figure 11: Brad Plumer; taken from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ news/ wonk/ wp/ 2014/ 02/ 11/ there-have-been-five-mass-extinctions-in-earths-history-now-were-facing-a-sixth/ ?utm_term=.5f4f4fac9942
Figure 12: Google Earth
Figure 13: Pamela J. W. Gore
Figure 14: courtesy of Janice Ansine
Figure 15: The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Ethics and Public Affairs Program; University of Montana
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Figure 17: Henry Arden;Cultura;Getty Images
Figure 18: taken from: http://www.seafoodwatch.org/ocean-issues/aquaculture; Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation
Figure 19: taken from: Figure 25.14 in Campbell et al. 'Biology' 8th edition; Pearson Education Inc.
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Section 5.3 Video: State of the Planet, episode 1: Is there is crisis? BBC
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