Q How are social equity and ecological sustainability interconnected? 7. What is the overall effect of the Aboriginal peoples’ activities on the material balance of the landscape? Explain: 8. The culture and worldview of the new European arrivals to colonial Australia: a. espoused a view of social justice for all humans. b. was one that believed the environment was there to be dominated and controlled. c. were much more sophisticated in regard to ecosystems than that of the Aboriginal peoples. d. had little effect on the native peoples or ecosystems of Australia. 9. Why did engineers and planners think it was a good thing, at the time, to destroy the Snowy River? 10. Why do well-intentioned human interventions designed to solve human-ecological problems typically fail and actually make matters worse environmentally or socially or both?