prairie dogs
1 What is biodiversity and why does it matter?
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2 How do populations change and influence each other?
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3 How do ecosystems respond to disturbances?
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4 How can we assess the health of ecosystems?
cities
1 How have humans changed landscapes over time?
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2 What does modern agriculture do to ecosystems?
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3 How does urban growth affect environments?
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4 How do impacts vary across communities?
2050
1 How can we feed ourselves without causing harm?
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2 How do you build a healthy city?
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3 Can we power the world without burning it?
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4 How do communities create lasting change?
You are walking through a story billions of years in the making. The phone in your pocket carries copper born from molten rock. The shirt on your back holds the touch of rain, the energy of the sun, and the patience of soil. The water you drink has traveled the Earth countless times—rising as mist, falling as snow, running as rivers.
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The Earth is a living tapestry. Sunflowers turn their faces to follow the sun’s arc. Prairie dogs dig deep, shaping the land for themselves and for others. Cities rise from the Earth’s stone, wood, and steel, breathing life through the people who call them home.
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We are woven into this web. The choices we make ripple outward, shifting the balance that has sustained life for millions of years. By 2050, those choices will shape the world in which children will grow, work, and dream—determining whether sunflowers still turn their faces toward the sun across wide fields, whether prairie dogs still call to each other over open grasslands, whether our cities hum with clean air and safe water.
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We are not just humans, not just earthlings. We are made of this planet—its soil, its rivers, its forests, its light. And in caring for it, we are, in truth, caring for ourselves