Chapter 3.8 introduces the basic principles of electricity, from current and flow in Ohm’s law, to resistance and impedance within electrical circuits. We discuss the danger of electricity within medical equipment, of the different types of electrical shock and measures in place to reduce the risk of electrical injury. We cover classification of electrical equipment according to safety measures.

The Barren Fig Tree parable is modeled on features of the famine in Egypt to portray the imminent coming of God’s kingdom. The dying tree and dead earth beneath, reminiscent of threatening conditions during the Egyptian famine in Joseph’s time, evoke the prospect of the end of the world in Jesus’ time.

In this chapter, these four co-authors emphasise the importance of sustainability for the future of people and planet, given that the case for all human and non-human inhabitants has never been clearer. Through an account of Mia’s doctoral study, they challenge readers to provide young children with meaningful opportunities to participate in conversations about the Earth’s future. More importantly, they argue for children’s concerns to be heard and their ideas acted upon. To this end, the chapter offers research-based strategies for early years educators, especially in the first years of schooling, given that the research was conducted with children aged from 6 to 8 years. They developed the 4C Pedagogical Framework for transformational early childhood education for sustainability as a valuable tool for this purpose.

The Earth is the yardstick against which the state of isostasy on the terrestrial planets will be assessed in the future. The primary data sets will continue to be gravity anomaly and topography data together with seismic data which have the potential to image the surfaces of flexure directly. We are close to defining the relative contributions of plate flexure and mantle dynamics in contributing to Earth’s topography and gravity fields as well as to its crustal structure and vertical motion history. The acquisition of higher-resolution data will increase the number of estimates of Te of the planets which, in turn, will help us to understand better the complexities of their geodynamical evolution.

The poetry of Edward Thomas (1878–1917) was all written during the First World War, but that war is frequently absent.He is an unusual war poet: an ‘Arts and Crafts’ war poet; a war poet who is focused on home but nonetheless committed to action and engagement with the world; a modern poet at home in the old wars and with the old tunes; a war poet of peacefulness.Thomas’s poetry addresses the war in its own way, directly and indirectly, with its own inclusive, hesitant, honest voice.We can see the uniqueness of his approach by looking at poems like ‘Adlestrop’, ‘The Manor Farm’, ‘The Combe’, ‘As the Team’s Head-Brass’, ‘The Owl’, ‘A Private’, ‘Digging’ and ‘Tears’.Thomas said of war poetry that ‘No other class of poetry vanishes so rapidly, has so little chosen from it for posterity’, but his own survived, and not simply because it contained very little of the war.

This chapter introduces the main theorists associated with ecological hermeneutics, their objectives and strategies. It demonstrates how an ecological approach can be applied using a specific story from the book of Judges as a case study.

This chapter introduces the idea of Earth’s timeline and the six major epochs. The principle of radiometric dating is introduced here, to provide the absolute age of the earth and other geological features. This chapter also provides a brief outline of geological principles, and especially emphasizes the importance of plate tectonics and continental drift, to explain the contours and positions of the continents, oceans, mountain ranges, and rifts. It introduces the idea of understanding the importance of geology/climate in driving biological evolution.

In GC II 8, Aristotle shows that earth, water, air, and fire, are presented in every mixed body. Here Aristotle develops further the discussion of elemental mixtures started in GC II 7. He goes beyond anything done up to this point because the mixed bodies he is concerned with are not just the elemental mixtures discussed in GC II 7; rather, they are all the mixed bodies inhabiting the region around the center of the universe. Insofar as this region is the place where the natural processes of generation and corruption take place, GC II 8 prepares the grounds for the final section of the GC II (GC II 9-11).

Drawing on biblical texts and theological reflections from early Christianity to the present, three prominent ways in which the sacramentality of creation has been nuanced over the centuries are explored: (1) Experiencing the presence of God in the world with focus on Ignatius of Loyola’s final contemplation in his Spiritual Exercises; (2) reflecting on manifestations of God’s goodness, power and wisdom that eminent patristic and medieval theologians discerned when studying the world and novel attributes that are discernible today when informed by current scientific findings; and (3) receiving the Eucharist as a heightened encounter with God that can strengthen individuals and communities to act cooperatively. These three ways of perceiving the world within which we encounter God constitute a formula for venerating Earth that should stimulate Christian attitudes and actions aimed at mitigating impediments to the flourishing of our common home.

Story of early life and the oxygen Holocaust >2400 million years ago. Impact of oxygen overload on early life. Worst extinction event. Evolution of oxygen-dependent life. Irony of human chemical deluge. Moral of the tale.

Explains how man-made ‘pollution’ – often seen as a local problem – has become a virtual river flowing round the entire planet. Describes contamination of oceans, remote regions, air in homes and cities, effect of plastics, impacts on wildlife. Defines six modes of chemical transport. Pollution is now universal, affecting all people and most of life on Earth

Early in the nineteenth century, the planetary Earth emerged as a new object of fascination across the Western world, upending Biblical authority and intertwining the once-separate orders of human and natural history. The industrial and imperial energies released by the emergence of Earth into human consciousness launched chains of causality leading to the Anthropocene, chains that bind us to this earlier era even as the Anthropocene cuts us off from its grounding assumptions. As natural scientists from Buffon and Hutton to Humboldt, Lyell and Darwin elaborated Earth’s evolutionary development and the ecological interdependences of living systems, political economists wrestled with the resulting problem: Do human beings have planetary agency? Their epochal decision to admit such agency in theory even while denying it in practice would bequeath us an unresolved legacy of metaphysical terror – as well as a role for literary artists in reimagining the horizon of the human.