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The use of these resources creates private benefits , but their misuse results in costs that are borne collectively . First , current law restricts the use of ESA funds to college or adult education expenses . " Environmentalist " is the term used to describe people who have a special appreciation for the natural world , who see nature not merely as a means of gratifying human wants but as a valuable end in itself . " This decision upheld the use of a publicly funded interpreter by a deaf student in a Catholic high school . At a cost of less than $ 10 billion annually , the adaptive measures mentioned previously ( such as those to reduce hunger , water shortages and costal flooding ) could slow , halt or even reverse habitat loss by increasing the efficiency of land and water use . They crowded our table with samples so we could find a wine that would bridge gnocchi and a mushroom ravioli , and still work with the plates of osso buco and scallops that came later . There 's also a decent wine list and a full bar . There are also shorter-term proxies — cave stalagmites , tree rings from trees both living and buried , boreholes and a wide variety of other temperature proxies . The baked stuffed mushrooms are filled with sweet crab meat topped with a white wine sauce , resulting in a light starter that two or three can share . The Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) allows the federal government to control private lands where listed species are found by preventing development or use of the land . Superfund was largely a response to the infamous discovery of an abandoned chemical dump beneath the residential community of Love Canal , N.Y.45 Across the country , fearful citizens demanded federal action to avert what was perceived to be a nationwide crisis : the existence of hundreds of sites at which chemical " time bombs " threatened to cause disease and death .